From Genoa with...
       Wednesday Mar  8 10:02:58 - Tuesday Mar 9 21:53 2023
       An antiques market. 
       Books wrapped in cellophane from various publishers with nondescrip
       covers. Ten copies of "AIRCRAFT" in English. Furniture. Teak or oak
       dining room tables for ten with extra leaves that allow it to seat 
       fourteen, bent metal-tubing chairs from Alessi, side tables, and 
       mid-century coffee tables. Knick-knacks from "'800 e '900": costume
       jewelry, rings with enormous fake sapphires, chunky necklaces, came
       nondescript silhouettes beside porcelain putti. Posters. Movie post
       show posters from the '20s and '30s, art prints from the local boy 
       wonders, reproductions, originals, and the engravings you find in t
       tourist shops. Tin helmets, machine guns, and inert grenades; plast
       tanks, toy soldiers, Micro-Machines, and Hot Wheels (for the 
       collectors). Buddha heads in wood and Tibetan Prayer flags, vases a
       mugs and old road maps sorted by region and city. One does the cros
       through her half-reading glasses; another reads the newspaper, and 
       another disputes prices with a customer. A student watches a lectur
       his computer at the bistro while eating a heaping plate of pasta.
       
       "Impor -export". 
       Fatigues and used clothing. Mostly jackets packed tightly together.
       Camouflage broadcasts and advertises in a mass of patterns. Leather
       jackets with lamb skin collars in the window. The patches preserved
       sheepskin-lined denim coats, corduroy shirts and blue jeans. Canvas
       leather all packed together. Then the importers. Sneakers, knock-of
       Adidas, chunky soles and thin soles, knock-off Keds. Blank T-shirts
       spectrum of colours all lined up by colour and size. Pants, get you
       pants! The proprietor stands in the doorway. Bags. Square luggage w
       two or four wheels. Large rectangular bags. All in a variety of col
       "Louise Votten" and "Long Champs" straight in from the docks. Backp
       duffle bags packed tightly in cellophane, raincoats, and umbrellas.
       Passport sleeves and ticket holders. Souvenirs arrayed on the wall,
       these stores are closed. Magnets: flat magnets with printed images,
       plaster moulded magnets, commemorative cups and shot glasses. Postc
       on a rotating stand, keychains. The traffic is bumper to bumper. 
       Trucks with full-size and half-size containers, cars, motorcycles, 
       taxis, busses on the way to the train station. Ferries. Ferries to 
       Sardinia. Ferries to Corsica. Then it opens up.
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