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#1 Uncle Vili was a proud Italian who had served in the Italian army during World War I. He was always bragging about his service, and he took credit for everything, down to the unforeseen brilliance of his most hapless schemes.
#2 Uncle Vili knew how to convey that intangible though unmistakable feeling that he had lineage, which came with the suggestion of wealth. He was intolerant of poor posture and bad table manners, and he detested what he called the atavisms by which Jews gave themselves away.
#3 Vili was a brilliant peddler, and after the war, he was given a Georgian estate in Surrey, where he lived in lordly penury under the assumed name of Dr. H. M. Spingarn. He was as devoted to Il Duce as he was to the Pope.
#4 He was a consummate marksman, a remarkable athlete, a shrewd businessman, and a relentless womanizer. He would use this phrase after negotiating a difficult transaction: Didn’t I warn them.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	19 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669354000
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

Uncle Vili was a proud Italian who had served in the Italian army during World War I. He was always bragging about his service, and he took credit for everything, down to the unforeseen brilliance of his most hapless schemes.

#2

Uncle Vili knew how to convey that intangible though unmistakable feeling that he had lineage, which came with the suggestion of wealth. He was intolerant of poor posture and bad table manners, and he detested what he called the atavisms by which Jews gave themselves away.

#3

Vili was a brilliant peddler, and after the war, he was given a Georgian estate in Surrey, where he lived in lordly penury under the assumed name of Dr. H. M. Spingarn. He was as devoted to Il Duce as he was to the Pope.

#4

He was a consummate marksman, a remarkable athlete, a shrewd businessman, and a relentless womanizer. He would use this phrase after negotiating a difficult transaction: Didn’t I warn them.

#5

Aunt Marta’s marriage crises were known to last for hours. She had such pounding headaches that she would put herself to sleep early in the afternoon and not dare show her face until the next morning, when she would ask someone to look at her eyes and tell her if they were puffy.

#6

The Schwab was a rich Jewish man who was married to Aunt Marta. He was a diffident man who had never worked a day in his life, but he was able to treble his family’s fortune on the sugar exchange in two years.

#7

The family emigrated to Japan in 1930, and the brothers sold cars there. The Japanese had three advantages: they were hardworking, they were eager to learn and compete, and they had never seen Jews before.

#8

The Isotta-Fraschini family was extremely wealthy, but they were also extremely vain. They kept up appearances, and their members were often seen Sundaying in the king’s gardens or arriving in chauffeured cars at the exclusive Sporting Club, but they were flat broke.

#9

Vili’s name was Aaron. He returned to Alexandria in 1922, four years after the signing of the armistice, and began to look for Jewish wives. He married one a little less than a year after returning from Europe.

#10

While the family tried to recover from the Isotta-Fraschini debacle, Uncle Vili was busy becoming a Fascist. He had become such an ardent supporter of Il Duce that he insisted everyone in the family wear a black shirt and follow the Fascist health regimen by exercising daily.

#11

Vili became very wealthy during the war, and when he returned home, he began to exhibit the many privileges of an English gentleman spy. But he was always uneasy about what was going on in Germany.

#12

In late 1941, the Schwab family began to hear rumors of an impending, perhaps decisive, battle with the Afrika Korps. The British, Vili said, were totally demoralized after the fall of Tobruk. Everyone was afraid.

#13

The matriarch of the family decided to put into effect an old family expedient. She summoned all members of her family to stay in her large apartment for as long as the situation warranted. None declined the offer, and they came, like Noah’s beasts, in twos and fours.

#14

The family debated whether or not to escape to another country. Aunt Flora was pessimistic, and did not believe that the Germans would lose. She was tired of running and wanted to hide in the desert if the Germans won.

#15

The Schwab’s half sister, Flora, played piano all night. Everyone was overjoyed. She played until very late that night, and she played softly every night, ignoring the men who were growing tired of waiting up for her.

#16

The British Eighth Army had managed to halt Rommel’s advance at El Alamein in 1942, and the battle lasted twelve days. Everyone was readying to leave the old mother’s home. Yet the preparations were slow, uncertain, and dilatory.

#17

Vili was a typical parvenu Jew. He knew everything about soccer, and everyone knew him. He knew everything about antiques, and everyone knew him. He knew everything about the local post office, and everyone knew him.

#18

I was told that my grandfather, who was a dealer in antiques, had the best brewer of coffee in the world. He explained that he had spent all his trump cards by the time he was 20, but that life had given them back to him many times.

#19

Vili had a very complicated relationship with his wife, Flora. He was constantly jealous of her attention and affection towards his son, and he never slept with her.

#20

I visited Dr. Spingarn in London, and he insisted on saying goodbye because he was afraid of dying. I told him that his mother was blind, dying in Egypt, and that he had misspent his life trying out flimsy schemes.

#21

Vili would listen to the French-language shortwave broadcast from Israel between ten and eleven o’clock every evening. I was surprised to hear this, but my cousin explained that it was the last thing Vili did before going to sleep.
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