Josep Huguet, José Millán Astray and the death of intelligence
With a sublime little parody of romantic nationalism from Camilo José Cela, who has his own particular view of this bothersome culture vs civilisation thing.
Tag: miguel de Cervantes
Cervantes, prototype for el Cobrador del Frac?
Ya en los nidos de antaño no hay pájaros ocaño
An elderly Andalusian’s way of saying “this year” may constitute early warning of global (or at least Peninsular) cataclysm, perhaps a regional franchise of the 2012 phenomenon.
The true origins of “Africa begins at the Pyrenees”
This deeply resented peripheralising aphorism was coined not by Alexander Dumas but by Dominique Dufour de Pradt or conceivably the Conde do Funchal.
Spanish, most popular elective extra-curricular language in English higher education
Now ahead of French, while German is being overtaken by Chinese.
Spanish/French shibboleth commemorates the brief reign of Joseph Bonaparte
Man combing Vietnamese pot-bellied pig in Cuenca courtyard
Or perhaps it isn’t.
Going to the dogs
Vague musings on the past and present of hare coursing and greyhound racing in Spain.
Mole models in Cervantes
From saviour to saved to savoury: the de-/remystification of bodily imperfection.
A league and a turd/Legua y mierda
Minsheu’s Pleasant and Delightfull Dialogues: where did he get all that horseshit?