The Dark Side - Thomas Cannings

Luxos Sees
by giulia dotti
ph. Marina Raccar
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a Bluff grace
around and about in Trieste to explore James Joyce’s
favourite city, sip a traditional Viennese coffee or go
shopping in the finest boutiques of this Venezia giulia city.
Trieste ha una scontrosa grazia. Se piace, è come un ragazzaccio aspro e
vorace, con gli occhi azzurri e mani troppo grandi per regalare un fiore;
come un amore con gelosia. Da quest’erta ogni chiesa, ogni sua via scopro,
se mena all’ingombrata spiaggia, o alla collina cui, sulla sassosa cima,
una casa, l’ultima, s’aggrappa.
(Umberto Saba, da Trieste e una donna, 1910-12)
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Trieste has a bluff grace. If you like it, it resembles a rugged and voracious
tomboy, with blue eyes and big hands that are too big to give a flower;
like a love tinged by jealousy. From this steep slope, I discover all its
churches, all its streets, if it leads to the cluttered beach, or the hill,
to whose stony peak, clings a house, the last.
(Umberto Saba, da Trieste e una donna, 1910-12)
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