The Fez is Not Enough

You'll need these tomorrow, Attaturk. Today, too.

On an entirely unrelated note: as a follow-up to seeing Il Divo, I'm reading Tobias Jones' The Dark Heart of Italy and this passage struck me this morning:

For [Leonardo Sciascia], Italy was so plagued by sophistry and deceit that it had become 'a country without truth ... there's not a criminal episode which, having some relationship with politics, has had a rational explanation or just punishment'. Many history books on modern Italy open with a resigned apology at the outset, suggeting that the whole thing is unfathomable. It's the same story with [Luigi] Pirandello's plays, which mock anyone's attempt to work out quite what was going on in the world.

Does this sound familiar?