Mysterious Zaragoza nights
Between-wars texts about Zaragoza by Germans who appear never to have visited the place.
Category: Theology
El gallito inglés / le coq anglais
Proud English cock, limp Latin hen: the binary opposition of English and Spanish fowls as a metaphor for the contrast between growing British military might and declining Spanish power.
The lurch and fall of the Almería coast
Excerpts from Juan Goytisolo and Ramón Fernández Palmeral, with an epitaph from George Orwell.
The universality of bu/bo/boo
The strange shrieks of theatrical monsters often don’t require translation.
The fretting nun’s secret
Kalebeul explained.
Viaje a México
Our itinerary, and that of Polo Polo on his Viaje a España.
Spanish mis-translation of Paolo Giordano The solitude of prime numbers
But where does the buck stop?
Freaky assault on Gracia pseudo-anarchist stronghold
Joan Txàpal strikes at the heart of dorkness.
Homeless Jonah about to be devoured by a great 100€-plated fish
But will an ecclesiastical trawler turn it into cat food first?
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