A slant in nostalgia, a foregone city of departed Europeans, another beacon of past material achievement, blast of an odd visual diversity, lenient but vane on its frail forbearing, a victim of totalitarian greed as speculation as well as of theological evil and insanity, Porto may still bridge aliens on its peculiar cast by the Atlantic Swell, & shudder to think itself as anything else than an Iberian boardwalk waxed with sullen shine & character for dire personals, short time dwellers or passengers on a dusk chase.