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Decadent graffiti art at nursery entrance in Carmelo, Barcelona

Posted: January 18th 2010 15:36. Last modified: January 18th 2010 15:45

The artist speaks.

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Categories: Les bourgeois, Of decorating with pictures, Pagans, Small flying creatures

Rhyme vs reason

Posted: October 4th 2009 18:05. Last modified: October 4th 2009 18:24

Restif de la Bretonne goes one step beyond Shakespeare and says that poetry is the language of Gods and beasts, and that reason speaks in prose.

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Categories: Animals, Decline, Poets, Small flying creatures

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Barcelona

  • March 12 1461 

    Arrival of Prince Charles/Carlos/Carles of Viana, who the Catalans want to swear as heir to the throne, in spite of King John II.

  • March 12 1709 

    Yesterday’s Dutch post advises, from Genoa, that the duke de Telesa’s secretary was lately hanged and quartered at Barcelona,
    for corresponding with the duke of Orleans, who gave him a daily pension of 25 pistolls.

    That general Stanhope was sail’d from Barcelona, wi...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 12 de març de 1919 DesprĂ©s d’aquests cinc anys passats a la Universitat, em sembla que el que hom sol dir-ne rutinĂ riament: que s’hi perd el temps i que en sortir-ne Ă©s quan s’ha de començar de treballar i sobretot quan s’ha d’oblidar el que s’hi ha après, Ă©s absolutament secundari. Al meu entendre, el pitjor efecte de l’establiment Ă©s la [...]

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