Tag: spanish literature
The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for October
More rubbish.
Burt Reynolds, the source for George Best’s account of what he did with his money?
With a early description by Arturo Barea of the railway Reynolds was filming on when he recited the immortal lines..
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.
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.
How to perform El retablo de Maese Pedro aka El retablo de la libertad de Melisendra in Don Quixote with one puppeteer and a narrator/bottler
Whether Cervantes saw it or not, it is possible as he describes.
Winchester is the centre of English civilisation
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.
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.