It turned out that he had brought the Tostitos to stave off not hunger but fatigue--the crunching, he said, kept him awake--and by now the enormous bag was more than half empty.
Scoprii che si era portato i Tostitos non tanto per ingannare la fame quanto la fatica sgranocchiare lo teneva sveglio, mi disse - e il sacchetto era ormai mezzo vuoto.