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And then when you were tired of fighting and you were just trying to give up, he'd get you in this armlock and start pounding on your head and he'd shout "I AM DANIELE AMILCARE AMATO LIVRANO! I AM DANIELE AMILCARE AMATO LIVRANO!" Over and over again, like it was so massively important that we knew who he was. And this was only in the first grade. I just couldn't understand it. In the sixth grade Daniele dropped out of school and started working in his father's bakery. I was terrified of him because he had this gang of people he was always hanging around with. They carried knives, just pen-knives, but they'd get you with those if you hassled them. Then, years later, I met this guy Francesco, who reminded me a lot of Daniele. Francesco really talked violent, but it was strange because he was also into reading all these philosophy books, so you kind of knew he'd never kill you. He read people like Nietzsche and Derrida and Kant and Hegel. le was all the time buying books from this used book store, and when he'd hang out with his friends after work he'd drop some of these ideas he'd learned and they'd all think he was awesome. Francesco read a lot of biographies of all these people who'd had a huge impact on the Antonio Roque is a senior in LSA. He writes for the Daily Arts Staff and Weekend. world. One time I was hanging out at his place and he told me that lone hero types were only a myth in America, that in reality there were no great American individuals. So we started talking about Napoleon and Stalin and Mao and Mussolini, especially Mussolini. Francesco thought Mussolini was awesome because he'd knifed two kids in school and had still become the leader of a country. You couldn't do that in America. Then I told him about Daniele who'd been really tough even in grade school and we thought that if Daniele was still alive he'd probably be the head of a gang or something. Francesco said yeah, and he'd probably also be a womanizer, but then Francesco was a womanizer himself. He had this girl he had wanted to marry, but he had been too young. So now he was just engaged to her, and he romanced all these women on the side. I said that that was crude, but he said that I couldn't understand, because I was an American. He said that there were no good American lovers, and that the only good lovers in the world were Italians. I thought that was funny so I left and two days later I returned after having started to read this book about Mussolini. I told him that Mussolini had been cool because he'd fixed the Italian economy. If he hadn't gone racist and gotten involved in the war, he would have been a hero till the day he died because of all the awesome stuff he did for Italy. Francesco said yeah, that was true, because when he'd visited some relatives of his in Rome, the place he'd stayed in was called E.U.R., which Mussolini had built. When he was there, Francesco had been hanging out with his cousin, who was a skateboarder. His cousin was crazy, Francesco said. They were once by this monument somewhere downtown and there was all this traffic around. There were two lanes of traffic going in either direction, and this crazy skateboarder cousin of his suddenly just jumped right in front of all this oncoming traffic, on his skateboard, and started zooming straight ahead, all while shouting out weird things in i Italian. The drivers going by cursed at him and honked their horns but this guy just laughed and he finally reached the other side. Francesco waited for a break in the traffic, and while he was 'waiting, he shouted out to his cousin, "Why did you do that? What are you, crazy? Why did you do that?" 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