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November 30, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
the playwright Saunders Lewis's Welsh criterion of true patriotism: ysbrid hael ac o gariad at wareiddiad a thraddodiad a phethau gorau dynoliaeth-"a generous spirit of love for civilization and tradition and the best things of mankind."
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December 26, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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
This was nationalism patriotism gone feral.
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December 26, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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
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
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
there is a plaque on an inner wall with a relief of Sir Richard & an inscription recording the improbable fact that in this building he opened the eyes of the western world to the full glory of the Arabian Nights.
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December 23, 2024 at 2:22 PM
In the deep waters of Trieste bay, not far off Miramare, on the bottom of the sea sands a life-size figure of San Giusto San Giusto del Mare. He is standing, I am told, four-square on the sea floor, bound
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December 29, 2024 at 4:14 PM
There are people everywhere who form a Fourth World, or a diaspora of their own. They are the lordly ones! They come in all colours.
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December 31, 2024 at 1:35 PM