A brief history of zoological shame
Featuring a Spanish view of the Saxons.
Tag: spanish literature
Goethe, responsible for Victorian pteridomania?
The disastrous horticultural consequences of fucked literary translation.
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!
Biblioteca Virtual de la Filología Española
Why I’ll probably be sticking with the Biblioteca Virtual del Señor Licenciado Pero Pérez.
Spain and the correct relationship between man and dog
Away with those canine metaphors! More Cela in translation!
Some thoughtful football commentary
The true origins of “Africa begins at the Pyrenees”
This deeply resented peripheralising aphorism was coined not by Alexander Dumas but by Dominique Dufour de Pradt or conceivably the Conde do Funchal.
Why they didn’t find Lorca
Bishop Gibson of Granada understands beatific bureaucracy but not tradition. Featuring a bad Vietnamese flamenco clip.
Is the anglocabrón longing for sun, sangria and sex a new phenomenon?
Blasco Ibáñez says that actually we have always thought “at all hours of the Mediterranean rim.”
Man combing Vietnamese pot-bellied pig in Cuenca courtyard
Or perhaps it isn’t.
