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011 - chapter 11 · In Our Time

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  Speaker 1: Chapter eleven of In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway. The
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  Speaker 1: Sleep of Ox recording is in the public domain. Chapter eleven.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen nineteen, he was traveling on the railroads in Italy,
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  Speaker 1: carrying a square of oilcloth from the headquarters of the party,
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  Speaker 1: written in indelible pencil, and saying, here was a comrade
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  Speaker 1: who had suffered very much under the Whites and Budapest,
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  Speaker 1: and requesting comrades to aid him in any way. He
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  Speaker 1: used this instead of a ticket. He was very shy
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  Speaker 1: and quite young, and the trained men passed him on
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  Speaker 1: from one crew to another. He had no money, and
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  Speaker 1: they fed him behind the counter in railway eating houses.
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  Speaker 1: He was delighted with Italy, who was a beautiful country.
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  Speaker 1: He said, the people were all kind. He had been
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  Speaker 1: in many towns, walked much and seen many pictures Giotto,
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  Speaker 1: Masaccio and Pierro de la Francesca. He bought reproductions of
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  Speaker 1: and carried them wrapped in a copy of Avante Montegna.
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  Speaker 1: He did not like. He reported at Bologna, and I
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  Speaker 1: took him with me up into the Romagna, where it
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  Speaker 1: was necessary I go to see a man. We had
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  Speaker 1: a good trip together. It was early September, and the
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  Speaker 1: country was pleasant. He was a mygard, a very nice
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  Speaker 1: boy and very shy. Prothy's men had done some bad
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  Speaker 1: things to him. He talked about it a little. In
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  Speaker 1: spite of Italy. He believed altogether in the world revolution.
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  Speaker 1: But how is the movement going in Italy? He asked,
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  Speaker 1: very badly. I said, but it will go better, he said,
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  Speaker 1: you have everything here. It is the one country that
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  Speaker 1: everyone is sure of. It will be the starting point
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  Speaker 1: of everything. At Bologna he said good bye to us,
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  Speaker 1: to go on to the train to Milano and then
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  Speaker 1: to Austa, to walk over the pass into Switzerland. I
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  Speaker 1: spoke to him about the Montegnas and Milano. No, he said,
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  Speaker 1: for very shyly, did not like Mentatna. I wrote out
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  Speaker 1: for him where to eat in Milano and the addresses
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  Speaker 1: of comrades. He thanked me very much, but his mind
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  Speaker 1: was already looking forward to walking over the pass. He
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  Speaker 1: was very eager to walk over the pass while the
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  Speaker 1: weather held good. The last I heard of him, the
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  Speaker 1: Swiss had him in jail near Sion. End of chapter eleven,