# Quote — Clive James, May Week Was In June

> When the bell rang to start the Italian hunting season, devotees of la caccia drove at full speed into the woods and shot everything that moved. Since the animals were sensibly lying low, most of the victims were people. Advancing at random through woods, the hunters - whose minds, like their expensive guns, were on a hair trigger - fired when they thought they saw something. Often they had seen each other. They also killed civilians in nearby villages. The occasional animal got hit, but only by a fluke. One man blasted a rabbit that was already hanging from another man's belt. So much vehicular traffic on the woodland roads, however, ensured that a considerable amount of wildlife was run over.

- Author: [Clive James](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clive-james.md)
- Book: [May Week Was In June](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clive-james/may-week-was-in-june.md)
- Page: 144
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clive_James#May_Week_Was_in_June_(1990)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/clive-james/may-week-was-in-june/when-the-bell

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