the noon sun
Your breathing becomes oppressed in the narrow valleys , and if you want to get a distant view -- there 's nothing to be seen , for everywhere some good-for-nothing mountain thrusts itself directly before your nose . I believe the Lord created those humps for a punishment to men after Adam 's fall . On the sixth day of creation the earth was level . It was in August , and when the noon sun was reflected from the rocks , the heat was enough to kill one ; it 's a miracle , that I 'm not sitting beside you dried up and baked . The famous blue of the Italian sky ! Always the same ! We have it here in this country too , but it alternates with beautiful clouds .