Spanish literature – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

January tweets

The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for October

More rubbish.

Organ-grinder in courtyard - Bruno Schulz illustration to his story Księga, The Book, 1937.

Singing Organ-Grinder tweets for April

Cranking it up along the River Lea.

Organ-grinding tweets for March 2018

The latest barrel organ news from Hackney, London.

Section of London-Harwich in 1675, crossing the River Lea at Bow.

I am the Crippled Demon, Hell’s fleas, the inventor of puppets

A half-translation of a list of minor torments by Luis Vélez de Guevara for a day on which the Christian Devil triumphed.

Winchester is the centre of English civilisation

Sez Lucio Vicente López in Recuerdos de viaje (1881). This is apparently in part due to the Normans having invaded without women, thus enabling the maintenance of The Saxon Character. He’s wrong. Winchester is suspiciously continental, while Romsey is Ethelflaeda, who sang psalms while skinny-dipping in the Test, and lithe & lusty hooligans.

Did the house that Jack built come from Spain?

Or, How to cook the old lady who swallowed a fly without stooping to cannibalism. Cumulative songs (and monstrous nested stuffing recipes) in Quixote and Estebanillo González, with the grossest video you’ll see today.

Cruikshank, The progress of passion (1792).

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.

Cuentos, Canta, borrachos, y demás noticias

Los cuentos de Eva funcionan muy bien, tanto en español como en inglés. Su vestido fue buena idea, él mío no tanto: mi disfraz estándar será traje/frac con peluqaza Javier Bardem en No es país para viejos. Ahora tengo que vender el concepto a escuelas – he tenido contacto con cuatro, y me gustaría hacer…