Les pervertis de Santander
Archaic French erotic pulp, plugging Cantabria’s gaping literary hole?
Category: The Church and the different sects
Some thoughtful football commentary
Daily Mail confuses Rudyard Kipling with George MacDonald Fraser
Paradise and town-planning
The Turks and Jews of Istanbul demonstrate that co-existence is not impossible.
An early candidate for a Darwin Award
David Bar-David, the lemming messiah.
Alectryon, the Ancient Greek model for our cuckold’s horns?
With a field study of the nymphomaniacs of Goa and brief notes on the early history of composite grafts.
The Snow Virgin ain’t afraid of the rain
Not that it ever rains in Villanueva de la Jara, Cuenca.
The right and the wrong type of snow, according to Avicenna, Aristotle and Plutarch
With an excerpt from a plea for more state funding by the Bostonian Western Rail-road, in which we are given to understand that snow is not necessarily a bad thing.
The storks of war
A fragment from Italo Calvino’s quasi-17th century folk romance, Il visconte dimezzato/The cloven viscount, uses storks as a portent of battle. Several unconnected 2nd century Greek accounts might appear to do the same, perhaps particularly if one’s a lazy sod and doesn’t read anything but scraps of stuff on Google Books.
Solving Africa’s woes with a simple parlour game
Desultory bar philosophising on the socio-economic function of Secret Santa.