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...yards off, Foreman Giuseppe Tigano, who had left the Communist Party because he is one of the few believers in the Sila Project, was arguing heatedly with Michele Verardi. Tigano had ordered a gang to cut through a garden which Verardi rents from Baron Giulio Berlin-gieri. On the map (and all old inhabitants of Santa Severina confirmed this) a municipal road once ran through the garden. Through the years, Landlord Berlingieri's tenants had advanced little by little onto the road so that it gradually became part of the baronial property...
...Said Tigano: "This is communal property and our road will run through it." Screamed Tenant Verardi: "What's the use of your pretending to distribute land if you take it from other poor people. It's me you're hurting. Where will I plant my cactuses? They yield good fruit. They keep me alive. This is robbery with violence." Then he burst into abuse: "May this road become a torrent with the first rains! May it drown all of you and bring a curse on your families, on Ente Sila and those it benefits...
...Angrily Tigano retorted: "I'm no Communist any more, and I believe others will also not be Communist any more. But remember, l'orso ha da mori (the bear must...
After a while, the name of Maria Tigano (no relative of Giuseppe), a small, black-garbed widow, was drawn. Despite regulations barring women from distribution, she had been included because all the village insisted she must have land. "She works like a man," they said. She had many children, so she was entitled to draw two lots. A great shout rose from the crowd over her first drawing: Maestria lot No. 7. On the second ballot she again drew a good lot. Someone at the back of the crowd cried: "Luck knows whom to help. Luck is always right...
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