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"I must warn you that primroses are in bloom," I said. 

"Damn." He didn't seem happy at all. "Tell Federico that the rooster will crow but under the roof. Repeat." 

"The rooster will crow but under the roof" I repeated now accustomed to these oddities. "And when will he sing? In the morning or in the evening?" 

"It doesn't matter." said Gianfranco.

On the other hand, I seem to attribute a lot of importance to a scribbled piece of paper that I brought him a few days later, in a concealad attic. 

"Hmmm. I have to go there," he said. And again it disappeared for a long time. When I saw him he had recently eaten a 16-egg omelette. I observed that it was not easy to digest. I asked him why he had eaten such a big omelette. Because after seven days of fasting in prison he had found only eggs in Ernesto Frua's kitchen, he explained. Only after the Liberation did I learn why he had gone to prison to fast.