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21 August 2026

The Escalator: The other Italian on the other mountain

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The Escalator: The other Italian on the other mountain

(A Friday read… enjoy!) The Escalator‘s Adam Clermont – our Adam Clermont too! – writes: On Alessandro Pasetti, the man who handed me a platform, and the fact that Italians cannot help themselves. There are two kinds of Italians. There are the Italians from the south, who leave because the land is steep and the work is hard and the reasons for leaving are older than the people who leave, and there are ...

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