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then I run the risk of staying up there all my life.

— Dino Buzzati The Tartar Steppe (1940)

allora io rischio di restare lassù tutta la vita

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By Giovanni Drogo (protagonist).

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It's a bit complicated. It's a kind of exile up here -- but you have to find some sort of outlet, you have to hope for something. Someone began thinking about it, then they began to talk about Tartars -- who knows who was the first?

The Tartar Steppe (1940)

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