Tully, Letters written during a ten years’ residence at the court of Tripoli (1819): June 12 1788 To you, my dear friend, who are always alive to the beauties and effects of nature, I cannot omit describing what an extraordinary impression an eclipse makes on the uninformed part of the inhabitants of Barbary. Of this…
Latin American, actually, but you could have fooled me. Apparently (via), according to Mendoza/Montaner/Llosa: The perfect idiot’s political tutelage included, in addition to connivings and resentments, a mixture of the most varied and confusing ingredients. First, of course, there is a lot of the Marxist vulgate from his university years. In those years, various introductory-level…
I’ve always wondered where Spanish judges, particularly local ones, find justification for their habit of ignoring judicial precedent and ruling whatever the hell they feel like. Having read Azorín’s Los pueblos (1904) yesterday evening, I think I’m getting closer. It contains the story of Don Alonso, a rural judge in Ciudad Real, who is presented…
“Is it true about the parsley, Your Excellency? That to distinguish Dominicans from Haitians you made all the blacks say perejil? And the ones who couldn’t pronounce it properly had their heads cut off?”
“I’ve heard that story.” Trujillo shrugged. “It’s just idle gossip.”
En la nit de 16 de desembre de 1773, uns rebels americans (incloent Samuel Adams) van descarregar 342 caixes de te en el port de Boston per a protestar contra l’aplicació pels Britànics d’impostos sense reformes democràtiques. L’altre dia en Seattle ho van fer altra vegada, per a protestar contra un impost sobre el cafè,…
Cànem o coral? L’estampat sobre cotó (calico-printing) va ser introduït a Gran Bretanya de la Índia en 1676, 150 anys abans de Barcelona. Un home anomenat Lane es va enriquir en el Manchester del segle dinou amb un patró del com Hugh Miller, escrivint en 1852, diu que El Vell de Dalt tenia els drets.…
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