Reading the Daily Mail’s heartfelt tribute it’s clear that this must be no ordinary farewell – perhaps the railroad equivalent of a Norse ship burial, a blazing, gilded train speeding (or not) into a black hole, with an echo of Gerardo Diego’s Llanura:
Hay un temblor de unisonos en la llanura estrellada de escondrijos Como liebres agudas los horizontes huyen sobre estelas bruñidas Las estrellas errantes se acuestan en el remanso de las leguas La línea férrea virgen silba silba y dispara flechas.
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… from Ángel González: “¡QUE BARBARO, CRISTINANO SE DESATA! TREMENDO DISPARO A LA ESCUADRA QUE HIZO TEMBLAR EL LARGUERO. POTENCIA Y - Leonardo Da Vinci’s plagiarism of la Moreneta almost foretold
Pío Baroja got pretty damn close to the Catalunacy of José Luis Espejo in La dama errante. - People, fucked translation is our opium, let’s smoke it while we can
Various posts here have been devoted to encouraging fucked translation from Spanish as a brand differentiator, where linguistic sloth and incompetence - Blue world
I hate the flag-waving and military parades around October 12, particularly when accompanied by the sight of the Spanish prime minister - Marsh-drowned treasures
Nick Lloyd writes that The legend of “El bruel“, which refers to a strange mournful bellow that echoed over the lakes, is
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02849/120314-MATT-web_2849298a.jpg
Wow, the Matt cartoon is pretty low (heard about it on the radio and thought as much). Quite lazy really.
They’re really remembering him for the “May Thatcher rot in hell” line. The interviews with the stockbroker brother reminded me that for all the rhetoric he and the City found they had the public over a barrel. Therein lies his failure: why don’t the monkeys who press the on/off button earn 500K instead of 50?
And who can forget this affectionate song about the Underground from the days of yore when tube drivers earned 30K.
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Hahaha I must have been elsewhere when http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_Transplants was around. I also loved the SWP’s sudden and monstrous fit of amnesia about someone they absolutely loathed http://socialistworker.co.uk/art/37645/Bob+Crow%2C+1961-2014
Oh, thanks… I didn’t know they had previous.