Pío Baroja – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Cuckoos

A new translation of Joan Maragall’s poem about the anarchist bombing of the Barcelona Opera in 1893, and a limerick by the monkey.

A demon hands a terrorist an Orsini bomb, on Gaudí's Sagrada Familia.

Mind over mutter: Céline on the challenges of speech production

Other doctor-novelists; why musicians can’t write.

Baroja joke about unread readers

And don’t give me any of that “rereading” shite, you illiterate swine.

Caversham near Reading, with Alps, recently melted.

Leonardo Da Vinci’s plagiarism of la Moreneta almost foretold

Pío Baroja got pretty damn close to the Catalunacy of José Luis Espejo in La dama errante.

Flamenco: (manifestación cultural de la) escoria de un país bajo?

Lectura estival, Baroja La Feria de los Discretos, en el cual Quintín Roelas se encuentra secuestrado por error por una banda de gitanos en la Córdoba de 1868: – Yo le diré a usted quién soy, y si después de saberlo no le parece mal, seremos amigos. – Y antes también. – No, antes no.…

If colonial Spain was led by Don Quixote and post-colonial Spain by Sancho Panza, who’s in charge now?

“Before [1898], without a doubt, it was quixotic country, which thought of itself differently from what it really was,” Baroja wrote in 1927. “Before, in the period of adventures, Spain was led by Don Quixote. From now on, it would be directed by Sancho Panza.” (Via learned.english.dog, source?)

Donkey Xote aka Rucio to the charge, sez Candide.

The Hispanic Orthography Files, continued

Plus a zarzuela/politics RFI.

Teatro Apolo in Barcelona, ca 1910, advertising the zarzuela Bohemios by <a href='http://www.zarzuela.net/ref/reviews/amadeu11_eng.htm'>Amadeu Vives</a>. CC from <a href=

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Cooking with pigeons in Spain

Yesterday in town it was remarked on the benefits to allkind that would accrue from exchanging our customary diet of Big Macs for one of roadkill and Fucking pigeon (what’s the Latin?). Celtiberians consulted state that their race does not partake of the pigeon, and Juan Bautista Carrasco’s Mitología universal (1864) suggests that this may…

Get another of Paul de Kock’s

Ulysses: “I suppose the people gave him that nickname going about with his tube from one woman to another.” Junius Henri Browne wrote in 1873 that he “gained a much worse reputation [in the US] for licentious stories than he deserved, from the spurious and prurient rubbish that used to be put off on the…

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