Day archive for June 20th, 2006

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Spanish barber, Tangier

Posted: June 20th 2006 23:33.

Here.


Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

Yes-people

Posted: June 20th 2006 23:30.

Gabriel Bibiloni wonders whether folks here aren’t just naturally prone to vote whatever the authorities tell them to vote in referenda.


Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

Trombonism

Posted: June 20th 2006 22:24. Last modified: June 20th 2006 22:26

Definition: A tendency to express banal and obvious concepts pompously and loudly.
Example: The practice of freedom, as for example on La Stampa, constitutes nothing more than the blasts of shareholder trombonism, by now reduced to a state of pure nostalgia, but hoisted as a club against dangerous and sulphurous revisionism. (Il Foglio; either my Italian [...]


Categories: Languages, Les bourgeois, Music, Splog

D’oc, d’oĂŻl, de sĂ­, d’ok

Posted: June 20th 2006 17:16. Last modified: June 20th 2006 17:50

Someone just quoted me a bit of ClĂ©ment Marot I didn’t know (OK, let’s be honest: I’d didn’t even know Marot):
En tant qu’Ouy et Nenny se dira,
Par l’univers le monde me lira.
Which Leigh Hunt (The Companion, 1828) translates as:
As long as Love says Yes and No,
The universe shall read Marot.
More info on les langues d’oc, [...]


Categories: Decline, Liberals & locals

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Barcelona

  • March 18 1376 

    Tempestad marina en las costas de Barcelona, donde se hunde un barco procedente de GĂ©nova y fallecen 60 personas.

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 18 de març de 1918 Aquest matĂ­, al safareig del jardĂ­, he vist la primera oreneta de l’any. L’ocell era al cantell de pedra del dipòsit, molt a la vora de l’aigua, i tractava, amb grans dificultats, de beure’n una gota. A la tarda, en passar per davant de l’esglĂ©sia, les orenetes xisclaven volant, descrivint circumferències molt amples, al voltant del [...]
  • 18 de març de 1919 Nit. Em quedo sol a la cambra de la dispesa. VigĂ­lia del meu sant. Recordo que molts anys enrera, a Palafrugell, en tal nit com aquesta, passaven colles d’homes per les cases que cantaven els goigs. «Sed, JosĂ©, nuestro abogado – en esta vida mortal» –deien. Perfectament. Hom els donava mitja dotzena d’ous i se’ls havia [...]

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