ABSTRACT
Two-and only two-of the characters in my story, Giuseppe Di Tomaso and Prof. Dr Angelo Rincaldi, are fictional. Yet they are historically plausible people. Di Tomaso is an Italian crane driver, injured in an accident at the docks. It is 1949, and he is being treated in Rincaldi’s sanatorium in Trieste, Italy. Though their words and actions are fabricated, the people with whom they interact, and who are constitutive of the networks in which they are embedded, are not (as the notes make clear).
