Roger Baylor | Exile, within and without

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Diary for 1 June 2021: Constructive criticism is seldom tolerated at...

Roger Baylor - 2021-06-01

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Beercycling by numbers, in Belgium

Roger Baylor - 2021-05-23

Travel

To hell with car-centric burdens, but long live the Trabant!

Roger Baylor - 2021-05-22

Beer

Coming soon: Der Alte at Common Haus

Roger Baylor - 2021-05-21

Travel

It was May Day in Vienna, 1987

Roger Baylor - 2021-05-01

Miscellany

Strong Towns: “The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisis...

Roger Baylor - 2021-04-25

Diary

The wild, wild Right Bank of the Ohio

Roger Baylor - 2021-04-24

Diary

The Weekly Wad lives on in the minds of malcontents everywhere

Roger Baylor - 2021-04-21

Diary

On Memorial Day, I’d prefer DRINKING beer

Roger Baylor - 2021-04-13

Diary

Make your own fun, but I will not carry a gun

Roger Baylor - 2021-04-12

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This is a city made for exiles. Many exiles, of course, are given no choice, but I imagine most of us sometimes tire of living in the open, where everything is plain to see and we ourselves are obvious, and for anyone with this sporadic impulse to withdraw into somewhere less transparent, Trieste offers a compelling destination--surreptitious itself, and ambiguous. It has offered a new home to many expatriates, voluntary or compulsory, but in the event many have spent half their time here wistfully wishing they were somewhere else. For this is an ironic gift of the place--to attract and to sadden, both at the same time.

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