I dreamt that I became close to an informal group of intellectuals from Trieste who studied the Gypsies or Roma. I joined them in the search for books in Italian, Croatian, and Slovenian that were published in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century. This was the time when Trieste was still in the hands of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and when both Croats and Slovenes started dreaming about their own state. Interestingly, they were proposing a similar solution for the Gypsies. Namely, they were advocating a Gypsy state someplace in Central or Eastern Europe. Of course, there were many heated disagreements about the location and size of such a state. One puzzling thing was that there was not a single Gypsy author among the intellectuals of roughly a century ago. Similarly, there was not a single Gypsy intellectual in the informal group that assembled in Trieste. No-one in the group was bothered by this absence, though. The intellectual pursuit was engaging in its own right. And there were piles of dusty books to study in so many languages. When I woke up, I marveled at the idea of a Gypsy state. Only dyed-in-the-wool intellectuals could come up with an idea of this ilk, anyway.