One of them, and he was the principal personage, was holding a fryingpan by its long handle; and in the fryingpan were lamp-wicks, which were called in the patois of the country farets.
Liakos's own conceptualization of clandestine struggle included L'Armata Brancaleone (1966), Mario Monicelli's parody of a knights' quest in the Middle Ages. His projected identification with Brancaleone, the antihero of Don Quixotesque qualities, points to considerable self-irony in his organization's conceptualization of militantism.
I saw in one corner […] a cluster of men and women, diverting themselves with a game at crambo. I heard several double rhymes […] which raised a great deal of mirth.
The result was usually that such helpers got a liberal sprinkling of mud over their clothing.
