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2004: April 15th 1904: death and liquid meat in Barcelona 2004: Cease and desist 2004: Waste disposal units 2004: Google, Nazi wives & thallophytes 2004: People’s republic of redundant prepositions 2004: April 15th 1954: Rab Butler and Orson Welles 2005: Nicknackerynoo 2005: Dubbing American diversity 2008: Bert Gilbert and his Eagle 2011: A tribute to the Valencian work ethic 2011: Test version of Valencian sloth song 2013: Su cuenta será Short Down 2015: Mind over mutter: Céline on the challenges of speech production

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From Mariano José de Larra (1809-37), El casarse pronto y mal:

Habrá observado el lector, si es que nos ha leído, que ni seguimos método, ni observamos orden, ni hacemos sino saltar de una materia en otra, como aquel que no entiende ninguna, cuándo en mala prosa, cuándo en versos duros, ya denunciando a la pública indignación necios y viciosos, ya afectando conocimiento del mundo en aplicaciones generales frías e insípidas. Efectivamente, tal es nuestro plan, en parte hijo de nuestro conocimiento del público, en parte hijo de nuestra nulidad.

Or:

The reader will have noticed, if he has indeed read us, that we neither follow a method, nor do we observe order, but do nothing but leap from one field to another, as one who understands none, sometimes in bad prose, others in crude verse, whether denouncing to public outrage fools and dissolutes, or affecting knowledge of the world in cold and insipid generalisations. Such is our plan, in part born of our knowledge of the public, in part of our insignificance.