Langston Hughes in Spain
Idealism vs realism as a Stalinist hack copes with the Italian bombing of Barcelona but struggles to explain why Moorish peasants are slaughtering Spanish workers in the battle for Madrid.
Tag: Natural history
Goethe, responsible for Victorian pteridomania?
The disastrous horticultural consequences of fucked literary translation.
Montserrat Tura and PSC hypocrisy in La Clota, Horta
The demented, evil swine has herself photographed in a neighbourhood her party has spent the last 20 years doing its damnedest to destroy.
Assaulted by a pine processionary caterpillar!
With chunks of Dioscorides and Andrés Laguna, including the wonderful story of what happened when an impotent bridegroom and a constipated friar involuntarily swapped medicines.
Berlusconi and the wiseness of Mubarak
“The wisest of men” line isn’t the former’s, but ben trovato it certainly is.
A bicycling boho hobo, tempted by Cockaigne, fearful of Ruin
What to do when a mysterious lady offers you a free ride?
The Nay of the Chacoli
The Basque provinces demand observance of protected geographical status for their lousy wine, but Burgos fights back with a costly study centre project that will prove that they make lousy wine too. ¡Viva la crisis!
Mens insana in vico insano?
The Arabs say خروÙ, the Catalans say ovella, the Chinese say 羊, but the Spanish apparently say Ovis orientalis aries
Can something be done about the nutters who use scientific rather than common names for Wikipedia articles, or is it time to call the whole thing off?
Spain and the correct relationship between man and dog
Away with those canine metaphors! More Cela in translation!