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Re shepherds, Pío Baroja says that in the Navarre village inhabited by Silvester Paradox, hero of The adventures, inventions and mystifications of Silvester Paradox (Aventuras, inventos y mixtificaciones de Silvestre Paradox, 1901) that the local guardians of public order were called ministers (ministros). (Silvestre Paradox is very strange and very funny. It’s a disgrace that it hasn’t been translated.)

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Comments

1. kalebeul » Treatment of incontinence sez:
   13 June 2006 at 7:17 PM

   [...] I’ve been sourcing all this stuff for some Flemish translation, but now I’ve started I’ll bang off a version of the chapter in Baroja’s The adventures, inventions and mystifications of Silvester Paradox (Aventuras, inventos y mixtificaciones de Silvestre Paradox) where Silvester takes up with the English conman and quack, Mr Macbeth. Trevor on 2006/6/13 @ 19:14 in Liberals & locals ‹‹ What’s she doing up there?! ‹‹ [...]

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