Acabo de versionar otra maravilla de la antología ilerdense decimonónica, La fiera corrupia, de Josep Maria Rexach, que empieza así: Una cosa que es molt certa Prontament vay a cantà Esplicant del polls y pusas, Que may se cansan de picà: Ells de la nit fan dia, Que trevallan sense po. Polls y pusas al…
Last week I snapped a Scandinavian blonde Maria in Vilafranca del Penedès. Joan Amades (El pessebre (1959)) tells us that, in Catalan nativity scenes, the Mother of God was always represented by a young, very white girl with hyper-perfect features, and that her whiteness is both traditional and proverbial (“white as a Mother of God”).…
