i have been driven mad by the night.
i just finished the italy reading, and it's majorly depressing that after about 55 years of attempting unification and finally getting it, it wasn't really unity at all and most of the people were worse off for it, and the country fell to fascism about 50 years later because the system sucked or whatever.

so now i'm off to see what sorry fate Germany fell to.
Oh yeah.
How could I forget.
Hitler.
Fuck.

And then the Cold War beckons (most invitingly, of course.)

So - I'm thinking, if possible, I'll fit in a little nap somewhere tonight. A couple of hours, maybe.
Thank god for afternoon papers.