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Certain Tone, Carnal Ritual, Simple People, Frost
PLAINCLOTHES
PLAINCLOTHES
So we come out on the road that
leads to the entrance of the other
sector, at which point I give a cer-
tain tone of strategic solemnity to
the matter: “come on ‘scéc’ a line
and let’s go”, and off we go, I didn’t
expect it, they really took me se-
riously. At the other end a lot of
opposing supporters are swarming
to come towards us, bingo! it was
worth it, all joyful we strengthen
the pace to join them in a healthy
orgy of forgotten bodies. And inste-
ad nothing, after evaluating I don’t
know what, considering that they
were twice our size, we see them
disappear into their sector.
Disappointment, unhappiness, shit
life.
DIGRESSION ONE: we didn’t real-
ly give a shit about fighting each
other to get the upper hand or fe-
eling tough if those other guys got
away. No supremacist ideology. We
didn’t give a shit about rankings on
who hit the most or who let one
or the other get away. There was a
carnal ritual that included fighting.
We liked it, that’s all. Simple people
doing simple things.
END DIGRESSION.
The game was obviously suspended
and never played again, while we
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youngsters had to do the obstacle
course in reverse. Cops with a desi-
re for revenge came back with tear
gas and gas masks. Those gases are
really a pain in the ass, you could be
as big and bad as you wanted but
when those fumes arrived on eyes,
entering the larynx and lungs, the-
re was only Santa Maria Gas Mask
that could save you. Luckily, char-
ming Gradisca is just a few leagues
from the sea, at the end of a shaggy
and nervous valley. Result: breeze
in the direction of the blue nihilists
and bye-bye gas effect. Aeolus one
of us. Away with new charges and
counter-charges on the athletic
track, to see it from the outside
it looked like a Monty Python set.
However, the matter was becoming
more complex, new departments
had arrived to help. Their golden
age of mass arrests had not yet be-
gun, but in no way did we want any
of us to be taken away and it was
clear that the doggedness was unju-
stified by reasons of public order:
we were trying to get home, they
just wanted to take revenge for the
embarrassment.
From determination to fury the
step is short: a section opens back
and leaves four of them behind, who