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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

Italian burglar caught after sitting down with book

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Italian burglar caught after sitting down with book

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
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The would-be thief became distracted after picking up a book about Greek mythology on a bedside table.
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  • can@sh.itjust.works
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    Giovanni Nucci, the author of The Gods at Six O’Clock, which explains the Iliad from the perspective of the gods, told Il Messaggero: “It’s fantastic.”

    "I’d like to find the person caught red-handed and give him the book, because he’ll have been arrested halfway through reading it. I’d like him to be able to finish it.

    I like this writer

  • ravhall@discuss.online
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    Just… take the book. 🤦‍♂️

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      It was so engrossing that he had to sit down and read it right there. It was that good.

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        I’m trying to find an English copy 😅

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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          Don’t keep it in your car. You might be driving down the road and glance at it. You won’t be able to prevent what will happen next.

          • ravhall@discuss.online
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            I don’t know what happened officer, I have this book on tape and suddenly I was transported to Ancient Greece!!

        • Pronell@lemmy.world
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          Some good viral marketing right there!

  • Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    Mr Nucci said his personal favourite deity was Hermes, the god of thieves.

    “He is also the god of literature. It is clear: everything fits,” he joked.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      Can you think of a greater honor for an author than “your book is so good that a guy stopped burglarizing a home just to read it?”

    • Sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works
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      Also:

      He is said to have told police he had climbed the building to visit a person he knew.

      “I thought I had ended up in a B&B, saw the book and started to read it.”

      Im not sure whether this guy really is a burglar or a troll.

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    So much for that “thieves don’t read” meme.

  • 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍@sopuli.xyz
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    Now I want to read this book, sadly it seems like it’s Italian only

  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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    The article is put together weirdly. It seems to jump from one point to another and back again

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      Maybe it’s structured like the novel.

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    Bookstores in Iraq will never be the same.

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