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Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.

- Jan Morris
born on this day, 1926

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October 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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What an absolute joy to see Jan Morri's A Venetian Bestiary, re-issued by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social, chosen as one of @dauntbooks.bsky.social five favourite new books of the week.
May 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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December 23, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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November 30, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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December 31, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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December 16, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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Even Joyce, the one outsider among them, is somehow admitted to the Establishment by the provision of a bronze picture-frame around his head.
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The Joyce Trail in Trieste
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December 21, 2024 at 9:52 PM
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I feel there are good people around, and an unspecified yearning steals narcotically over me what the Welsh language, in a well-loved word, calls hiraeth
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December 17, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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In those days I thought of his ironically tolerant outlook as idiosyncratic cosmopolitanism, but now I would characterize it as Triesticity.
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December 26, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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May 22, 2026 at 7:24 AM
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December 15, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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Joyce himself had his genius to keep him company. He wrote the whole of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in Trieste, and most of Dubliners, and he devised much of Ulysses.
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December 23, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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How sad that her bonfire that night, which she saw as a beacon of truest dedication, should have been interpreted ever since as a conflagration of betrayal.
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December 27, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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Trieste (or Triest, as the Austrians spell it, or Trst as the Slovenes prefer, and the Croats down the road)
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December 18, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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None of my responses to these scenes are exuberant, but they are not despondent either. I am homesick, I am thinking sad thoughts about age, doubt and disillusion, but I am not unhappy.
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December 17, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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It used to be said that she burnt the manuscript not in a bedroom grate, but in a bonfire in the garden of their house, and this is the version I prefer.
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December 27, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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but to my my mind nationalism has come to mean no more than narrow and offensive chauvinism, based on baloney.
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December 26, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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December 19, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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2. as the Austrian Robert Musil once put it, those of us who suppose everything to mean more than it has any honest claim to mean.
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December 17, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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This was nationalism patriotism gone feral.
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December 26, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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The underground river Timava that flows into the Adriatic out of the Karst is attended by many a myth and legend-"vast with a murmur of mountains," Virgil called it;
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December 28, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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#JanMorris was a member of 1953 British #MountEverest expedition, that made the first ever confirmed ascent of #Everest, the only journalist to accompany the expedition, climbing with the team to a camp at 22,000 feet. She too was a trans woman who knew early on.

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Jan Morris a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. Here she smiles warmly in front of a much enlarged front page of her memoir Conundrum. Welsh historian, author and travel writer Jan Morris leans over the lower panel of a country cottage horizontal split two leaf door. Welsh historian, author and travel writer Jan Morris beams to camera holding a presentation shield in wood with civic chain style adornment. Trans Positivity Campaign Jan Morris (1926-2020) Jan Morris, a gifted author who has captivated readers worldwide with her exceptional storytelling skills. What sets her apart even more is her remarkable journey as a transgender woman. She has been a pioneer, shattering stereotypes and leading the path for fellow members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Jan's writings possess the ability to deeply resonate with individuals and broaden their horizons. She is undeniably an icon, and her legacy will continue to shine brightly for generations to come. PFlag Canada. Durham Region
October 1, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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The port of empire inevitably withered, hay ing no obvious purpose within Italy, and the city declined into torpor as Pope said of Vestal Virgins, and Gibbon of "the world forgetting, by the world forgot."
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December 17, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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Hundreds more follow the Joyce Trail, the Svevo Trail or the Rilke Path, armed with maps and pamphlets provided by the tourist authority, and pursuing in fact as in fiction the memories of the three writers
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December 31, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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December 31, 2024 at 2:34 AM