Said the Milanese to Alessandro While Waiting in the Trees, With Only 20 Rounds of Ammo Apiece,for the Austrians

“And I don’t like to fight in fog. With the stars there’s something more tolerable about it, and in the cold air up here the stars go crazy. They’re so bright they jump around like fleas, they burn like magnesium. If you get killed on a night like that you go straight up.”