Sciascia Leonardo — The Day of the Owl [522]

Brooding over this news and seething with impotent rage, the captain was stalking aimlessly around the streets of Parma with the air of a man afraid of being late for an appointment. He did not even hear his friend Brescianelli call him by name from the opposite pavement and was surprised and annoyed when the other caught up and stopped him, standing, smiling affectionately and claiming at least a hand-shake in the name of their happy but, alas, distant schooldays. — Sciascia Leonardo, The Day of the Owl, 522

Note

Bellodi’s defeat rendered in exile — the investigator’s impotence expressed as a body that walks as if late for an appointment. The irony that the mainlander, transplanted back home, cannot stop carrying Sicily.