Cesare Pavese - Hard Labor (1936)

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The girls are all giggling, then one girl suddenly remembers the wild goat. Up there, on the hilltop, in the woods and rocky ravines, the peasants saw him butting his head against the trees, looking for the nannies. He's gone wild, and the reason why is this: if you don't make an animal work, if you keep him only for stud, he likes to hurt, he kills.

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