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Faced
with
the
savagery
of
this
absolute
power
,
the
suffering
people
learned
never
to
betray
their
anger
and
their
hatred
for
fear
of
being
crushed
.
They
learned
never
to
make
themselves
vulnerable
by
uttering
any
sort
of
threat
since
giving
such
a
warning
insured
a
quick
reprisal
.
They
learned
that
society
was
their
enemy
and
so
when
they
sought
redress
for
their
wrongs
they
went
to
the
rebel
underground
,
the
Mafia
.
And
the
Mafia
cemented
its
power
by
originating
the
law
of
silence
,
the
omerta
.
In
the
countryside
of
Sicily
a
stranger
asking
directions
to
the
nearest
town
will
not
even
receive
the
courtesy
of
an
answer
.
And
the
greatest
crime
any
member
of
the
Mafia
could
commit
would
be
to
tell
the
police
the
name
of
the
man
who
had
just
shot
him
or
done
him
any
kind
of
injury
.
Omerta
became
the
religion
of
the
people
.
A
woman
whose
husband
has
been
murdered
would
not
tell
the
police
the
name
of
her
husband
's
murderer
,
not
even
of
her
child
's
murderer
,
,
her
daughter
's
raper
.
Justice
had
never
been
forthcoming
from
the
authorities
and
so
the
people
had
always
gone
to
the
Robin
Hood
Mafia
.
And
to
some
extent
the
Mafia
still
fulfilled
this
role
.
People
turned
to
their
local
capo-mafioso
for
help
in
every
emergency
.
He
was
their
social
worker
,
their
district
captain
ready
with
a
basket
of
food
and
a
job
,
their
protector
.
But
what
Dr.
Taza
did
not
add
,
what
Michael
learned
on
his
own
in
the
months
that
followed
,
was
that
the
Mafia
in
Sicily
had
become
the
illegal
arm
of
the
rich
and
even
the
auxiliary
police
of
the
legal
and
political
structure
.
It
had
become
a
degenerate
capitalist
structure
,
anti-communist
,
anti-liberal
,
placing
its
own
taxes
on
every
form
of
business
endeavor
no
matter
how
small
.
Michael
Corleone
understood
for
the
first
time
why
men
like
his
father
chose
to
become
thieves
and
murderers
rather
than
members
of
the
legal
society
.
The
poverty
and
fear
and
degradation
were
too
awful
to
be
acceptable
to
any
man
of
spirit
.
And
in
America
some
emigrating
Sicilians
had
assumed
there
would
be
an
equally
cruel
authority
.
Dr.
Taza
offered
to
take
Michael
into
Palermo
with
him
on
his
weekly
visit
to
the
bordello
but
Michael
refused
.
His
flight
to
Sicily
had
prevented
him
from
getting
proper
medical
treatment
for
his
smashed
jaw
and
he
now
carried
a
memento
from
Captain
McCluskey
on
the
left
side
of
his
face
.
The
bones
had
knitted
badly
,
throwing
his
profile
askew
,
giving
him
the
appearance
of
depravity
when
viewed
from
that
side
.
He
had
always
been
vain
about
his
looks
and
this
upset
him
more
than
he
thought
possible
.
The
pain
that
came
and
went
he
did
n't
mind
at
all
,
Dr.
Taza
gave
him
some
pills
that
deadened
it
.
Taza
offered
to
treat
his
face
but
Michael
refused
.
He
had
been
there
long
enough
to
learn
that
Dr.
Taza
was
perhaps
the
worst
physician
in
Sicily
.
Dr.
Taza
read
everything
but
his
medical
literature
,
which
he
admitted
he
could
not
understand
.
He
had
passed
his
medical
exams
through
the
good
offices
of
the
most
important
Mafia
chief
in
Sicily
who
had
made
a
special
trip
to
Palermo
to
confer
with
Taza
's
professors
about
what
grades
they
should
give
him
.
And
this
too
showed
how
the
Mafia
in
Sicily
was
cancerous
to
the
society
it
inhabited
.
Merit
meant
nothing
.
Talent
meant
nothing
.
Work
meant
nothing
.
The
Mafia
Godfather
gave
you
your
profession
as
a
gift
.
Michael
had
plenty
of
time
to
think
things
out
.
During
the
day
he
took
walks
in
the
countryside
,
always
accompanied
by
two
of
the
shepherds
attached
to
Don
Tommasino
's
estate
.
The
shepherds
of
the
island
were
often
recruited
to
act
as
the
Mafia
's
hired
killers
and
did
their
job
simply
to
earn
money
to
live
.
Michael
thought
about
his
father
's
organization
.
If
it
continued
to
prosper
it
would
grow
into
what
had
happened
here
on
this
island
,
so
cancerous
that
it
would
destroy
the
whole
country
.
Sicily
was
already
a
land
of
ghosts
,
its
men
emigrating
to
every
other
country
on
earth
to
be
able
to
earn
their
bread
,
or
simply
to
escape
being
murdered
for
exercising
their
political
and
economic
freedoms
.
On
his
long
walks
the
most
striking
thing
in
Michael
's
eyes
was
the
magnificent
beauty
of
the
country
;
he
walked
through
the
orange
orchards
that
formed
shady
deep
caverns
through
the
countryside
with
their
ancient
conduits
splashing
water
out
of
the
fanged
mouths
of
great
snake
stones
carved
before
Christ
.
Houses
built
like
ancient
Roman
villas
,
with
huge
marble
portals
and
great
vaulted
rooms
,
falling
into
ruins
or
inhabited
by
stray
sheep
.
On
the
horizon
the
bony
hills
shone
like
picked
bleached
bones
piled
high
.
Gardens
and
fields
,
sparkly
green
,
decorated
the
desert
landscape
like
bright
emerald
necklaces
.
And
sometimes
he
walked
as
far
as
the
town
of
Corleone
,
its
eighteen
thousand
people
strung
out
in
dwellings
that
pitted
the
side
of
the
nearest
mountain
,
the
mean
hovels
built
out
of
black
rock
quarried
from
that
mountain
.
In
the
last
year
there
had
been
over
sixty
murders
in
Corleone
and
it
seemed
that
death
shadowed
the
town
.
Further
on
,
the
wood
of
Ficuzza
broke
the
savage
monotony
of
arable
plain
.
His
two
shepherd
bodyguards
always
carried
their
luparas
with
them
when
accompanying
Michael
on
his
walks
.
The
deadly
Sicilian
shotgun
was
the
favorite
weapon
of
the
Mafia
.
Indeed
the
police
chief
sent
by
Mussolini
to
clean
the
Mafia
out
of
Sicily
had
,
as
one
of
his
first
steps
,
ordered
all
stone
walls
in
Sicily
to
be
knocked
down
to
not
more
than
three
feet
in
height
so
that
murderers
with
their
luparas
could
not
use
the
walls
as
ambush
points
for
their
assassinations
.
This
did
n't
help
much
and
the
police
minister
solved
his
problem
by
arresting
and
deporting
to
penal
colonies
any
male
suspected
of
being
a
mafioso
.
