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Tables of Contents for Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
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Prologue An Angel Passes
``That half real, half-imagined seaport''
A City Down the Hill
``Surreal, hypochondriac, subliminal? Surely not''
Preferring a Blur
``For the drifter it is just right''
Remembering Empires
``Seductive illusions of permanence''
Only the Band Plays On
``I can hear the music still, but all the rest is phantom''
Origins of a Civic Style
``Because---well, because of the Trieste effect''
Sad Questions of Oneself
``The officers have turned in their saddles to see what is happening''
Trains on the Quays
``Far away from where? Exile is no more than absence''
One Night at the Risiera
``Their spirit, diffused but inherent, like a gene in the chromosome''
Borgello, Kofric, Slokovich and Blotz
``I can't make out the colour of Trieste, but it looks sort of orangy''
The Nonsense of Nationality
``If race is a fraud, nationality is a cruel pretence''
Love and Lust
``When I think of Trieste, love and lust, I often think of him''
The Wild Side
``A lifelong aspirant anarchist''
The Biplane and the Steamer
``The wind blew and the dog barked, but by teatime I was back in Trieste''
What's It For?
``He potters around the house. He tinkers with this hobby and that''
After My Time
``A virility that has come too late for me''
The Capital of Nowhere
``A diaspora of their own''
Epilogue Across My Grave
``As we used to say at the cinema, this is where we came in''