The Two Gardeners
An anti-intellectual French horticultural fable.
Tag: literacy
Workers who don’t, unemployed who ain’t
A fragment from the story of how Andalusia got where it wouldn’t necessarily want to be, given a modicum of thought.
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Apart from wondering how small a tsunami has to be to become a mere wave, whether the relative accessibility of trees should not be worked into the stats, and what a pechelingue was doing off Galicia, I was curious as to the origins of Nick’s figure for literacy in Spain–20% in 1606. The 1860 Spanish…
Great tunes, great doggerel, small simians