🪷 #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance ‘I haven’t gone from one sex to the other. I’m both’... #JanMorris, renowned and beloved essayist, historian, journalist and traveler, author of scores of books, died on 20 November 2020, #TransgenderDay. She was born 2 October 1926 as James. 🪷
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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Anglo-Welsh journalist, historian and trans activist Jan Morris was BOTD in 1926. Enjoying huge success as a journalist and writer she became one of the UK’s first public figures to undergo a gender transition, described in her memoir “Conundrum”. #janmorris #transhero #bornonthisday
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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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all it need say about itself is "Sua Triestinità." To my mind this is an existentialist sort of place, and its purpose is to be itself. #triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
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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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They are gone, all those great vessels, gone with the old greatness of Trieste itself. They had sad ends. The Viribus Unitis was meanly sunk that day at Pola-
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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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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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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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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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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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but to my my mind nationalism has come to mean no more than narrow and offensive chauvinism, based on baloney.
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MY COUNTRY right or wrong. How meaningless how it sounds nowadays, how preposterous! It is the slogan of blind nationalism. Patriotism, the love of one's people try, seems to me still a noble emotion
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This was nationalism patriotism gone feral.
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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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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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Trieste (or Triest, as the Austrians spell it, or Trst as the Slovenes prefer, and the Croats down the road)
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But the bay of Trieste looks a regretful bay. It can never be what it was, and reminds us from the start, as I was first reminded half a century ago, that this city was built to a lost purpose.
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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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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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1. Those who know it better often seem to see it figuratively, not just as a a city but as an idea of a city & it appears to have a particular influence upon those of us with a weakness for allegory-
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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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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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