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Why less democracy is better for Europe

Posted: March 3rd 2010 11:50. Last modified: March 3rd 2010 11:53

Peter Mandelson on how fortunate we are that the European Commission is unelected, remote, unaccountable, and a major bureaucracy.

Here’s looking at you, lunch

Posted: August 29th 2008 16:58. Last modified: August 29th 2008 17:06

I think it’s actually a slow worm, but here’s Thomas Decker’s Honest whore anyway:
Lord Hippolito. Scarce can I read the stories on your brow,
Which age hath writ there: you look youthful still.
Orlando Friscobaldo. I eat snakes, my Lord, I eat snakes. My heart shall never have a wrinkle in it, so long as I can [...]

Lizard

Posted: October 7th 2007 12:38.

On a farm wall near Olot:

Of trousersnakes

Posted: April 21st 2007 10:58.

Did the serpent deflower Eve or merely provide professional consulting services, thus relegating humans to a subsidiary role in creation?

Bestiaries (ii): Llull and Orwell

Posted: January 18th 2004 00:13. Last modified: March 22nd 2009 15:53

Through the serpent have come all evils in the world.

the yettis of hell

Posted: December 17th 2003 16:02.

Sorry, but anyone tell me whether the following William Dunbar quote refers to the long battle by Dorset priests to rid their churches of scrumpy ‘n’ western, to yet another destruction of Leicester City FC’s charity team, or to skirmishes between farmers and those legendary mint tea-crazed monsters?
Done is a battell on the dragon blak;
Our [...]

Hagedis 1, moi 0

Posted: July 19th 2003 01:14. Last modified: September 5th 2008 14:28

Jullie hebben mij niet geholpen en het beest heeft z’n lekkere lijffie op een erg ongeschikt moment laten zien. Ipv met hem tweezaam thuis te blijven, ga ik morgen op m’n Hollandse opafiets naar de Ordesa nationale park om bezoek te brengen aan een vrouw die zich teruggetrokken heeft met drie monstermoggies in een goed [...]

hagedisje

Posted: July 17th 2003 00:10.

Lijkt op deze, maar kleiner. Forenst sinds drie dagen tussen boekenkast, badkamer en koelkast. Hoe raak ik hem in Godsnaam op non-fatale wijze kwijt voordat de significant other (geen gelijkenis) er achter komt?
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Barcelona

  • March 21 1848 

    En Barcelona como en otras partes comienza hoy la primavera, que en honor de la verdad no suele ser aqui la estacion mas hermosa del año. Cierto que ya los árboles comienzan á echar hoja, y que la linda y olorosa violeta alfombra los jardines y ribazos, y que le hacen cortejo otras flores; per...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 21 de març de 1918 En aquest país tenim un costum molt curiós. Quan ens trobem, al carrer, dues persones, cara a cara, no tenim, a penes, res a dir-nos. Però, una vegada acomiadats i fets set o vuit passos, se’ns ocorren tot d’una una sèrie de coses urgents a dir a la persona que hem deixat fa un moment. [...]
  • 21 de març de 1919 Inici de la primavera. Biblioteca. Tot traduint Renard penso que és més important dominar un ofici qualsevol que posseir una curiositat dilatada, vastíssima. La curiositat es pot improvisar; un ofici, no. La curiositat és superficialment agradable, però deixa una certa buidor amarga per dintre. Un ofici és monòton i pesat, però té moments d’una voluptuositat [...]

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