ohmygod. translating this italian chapter is turning out to be really hard. of course, these italian stories are getting progressively more difficult, but still. i'm having a lot of trouble with this. the assignment is to translate a chapter of the italian story we're reading, but so far, my translation is making absolutely no sense. there's this crazy old asmathic man that is simply referred to as "the old asmathic." characters just randomly come and go throughout the story without any rhyme or reason. of course, my translation is most likely just you know, wrong. uuuugh...why can't everyone just speak english?