English literature – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Singing Organ-Grinder tweets for April

Cranking it up along the River Lea.

Organ-grinding tweets for March 2018

The latest barrel organ news from Hackney, London.

Section of London-Harwich in 1675, crossing the River Lea at Bow.

Mind over mutter: Céline on the challenges of speech production

Other doctor-novelists; why musicians can’t write.

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.

La fête de l'Ordre des Cocus devant le trône de Sa Majesté, Infidélité/The celebration of the Order of Cuckoldry before the throne of her majesty, Infidelity. French print, ca. 1815. <a href='http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Order-cuckoldry-ca1815-French-satire.jpg'>CC from Wikimedia Commons</a>.

Rhyme vs reason

Restif de la Bretonne goes one step beyond Shakespeare and says that poetry is the language of Gods and beasts, and that reason speaks in prose.

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.

CC says that Telva says that Jaume Plensa is simply panting to design some sets for Verdi’s Macbetch. I blame Telva’s legions of copy editors this time–they get Toulouse wrong too–but there’s no reason why not: “So this is the story of Lady Macbitch and her husband. The Queen stimulates herself with the props of…

I met man who almost killed Orwell

Sez No Good Boyo: “If you’d known who he was, would you have killed him?” “Of course. He was fifth-columnist, Trotsky-Maxtonite traitor to worker class. My boys would have tattooed hammer and sickle on his head with bullets. We had many. Soviet economy strong.”

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