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	<title>kalebeul &#187; Chronica majora</title>
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	<description>anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Hammond organ recital</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/08/hammond-organ-recital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mr Hammond is looking for sponsors for his 24-hour (church) organ marathon (with webcam) next Tuesday at St Edmund&#8217;s (that&#8217;s the king), Northwood, Middlesex. Lohengrin is somewhere after three in the morning, Italy at five, and fortunately there&#8217;s no Spanish repertoire. A month ago he was having the odd problem with Widor.
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		<title>Catalan etymology of paper? Probably not</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/08/catalan-etymology-of-paper-probably-not/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/08/catalan-etymology-of-paper-probably-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Xavi Caballé mentions an oft-cited Catalan etymology of paper:
1249; del ll. papyrus, i aquest, del gr. pápyros &#8216;papir&#8217;, adaptat per via semiculta a una terminació catalana, d&#8217;on passà a les altres llengües europees
AFAIK the Enciclopèdia Catalana has never substantiated this. The Dictionnaire de l’Académie francaise says:
PAPIER n. m. XIIIe siècle. Issu, par l’intermédiaire du latin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Superheroes, Gerona Airport</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/06/superheroes-gerona-airport/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/06/superheroes-gerona-airport/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of pictures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of theatre]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7925</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Barcelona still gets a substantial volume of stag and hen traffic. This party consisted of a dozen supermen and a dozen ladies done out in Southend style. Note to tourists: Catalonia is not Krypton.

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		<title>Destruction of old Peking</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/05/destruction-of-old-peking/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/05/destruction-of-old-peking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of cities and stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7918</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, but how long before it is rebuilt as a theme park? Plaza de San Felipe Neri is one of the most interesting examples of the latter in Barcelona. Only in the demolition of marginal and shanty towns have Spanish planners approached the rigour of the Chinese authorities. Half of the valley of Torre del [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laporta/Hitler</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/04/laportahitler/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/04/laportahitler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of ball games]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of wars, games and stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This seems a bit harsh on the Barça president but the comparison is a standard feature of any Spanish debate:

People I know are voting for the motion of censure on Sunday to fack this one off rather than in the expectation that the next one will be less of a mafioso. Some of the family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video of interesting aural and visual stroboscopic effects on the Renfe train from Barcelona to Vich</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/04/video-of-interesting-aural-and-visual-stroboscopic-effects-on-the-renfe-train-from-barcelona-to-vich/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/04/video-of-interesting-aural-and-visual-stroboscopic-effects-on-the-renfe-train-from-barcelona-to-vich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the chariot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A malfunction of the public address system produces a rather pleasing strobe:
 
At the end of this clip, a crude example of the wagon wheel effect, caused by what the brain, fooled by the camera, takes to be a succession of evenly spaced, identical Quercus ilex:
 
More educational train journeys here.
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		<title>Poppy</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/04/poppy/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/04/poppy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of pictures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of small animals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The May monsoon endowed plants with a Made-In-China verisimilitude:


Knee-scratching thistles are now several metres high, and Karik and Valya could have told you all about the monstrous dragonflies:
In the spot where just a moment or two ago there had lain a tiny dragonfly, there now moved a thick, long, log-like, jointed body with a huge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Siege of Barcelona by the French in 1697</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/03/siege-of-barcelona-by-the-french-in-1697/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/03/siege-of-barcelona-by-the-french-in-1697/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Decline]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of wars, games and stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Swedish Military Archive, this purports to show Vendôme at the head of some 32,000 troops bombarding Barcelona in the final stages of the Nine Years War:
Wikipedia: &#8220;The garrison capitulated on 10 August, but it had been a hard fought contest; French casualties amounted to about 9,000, and the Spanish had suffered some 12,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Butterflies</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/02/butterflies/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/02/butterflies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of pictures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of small animals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Huge numbers yesterday on this walk, on some very quiet meadows at between 400 and 600m. First Gonepteryx rhamni, our Brimstone:

Next is I think a Clouded Yellow, Colias croceus:

Then Papilio machaon, macaón in Spanish, Common swallowtail and a host of other names in English. We saw a couple of dozen:

A swallowtail story from The child&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basque Hell</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/02/basque-hell/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/02/basque-hell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of theatre]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of wars, games and stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7900</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the trailer (currently unsubtitled) for El infierno vasco, about the ethnic cleansing conducted by the nationalist government and the terrorists with a view to reducing the non-nationalist vote and thus achieving a pro-independence majority. The process, of which the latest episode is the removal of the constitutional right to use Spanish in schools, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pejorocracy, government of the worst</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/02/pejorocracy-government-of-the-worst/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/02/pejorocracy-government-of-the-worst/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of theatre]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Gilleland believes it was coined by Ezra Pound (&#8221;It occurs in one of the Pisan Cantos, dated 1948&#8243;). I wonder if the Spanish-speaking peoples, who have considerable experience in the field, may not have been first. José Ortega Munilla&#8217;s Chispas del yunque were published in ABC 1920-2, and in GBS&#8217; useless snippet view he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Realest fake Beatles</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/01/realest-fake-beatles/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/01/realest-fake-beatles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Homosexuallord Fields votes for Los Shakers from Montevideo. Scroll down the post for MP3s.
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		<title>Indisputable proof that Gaudi was Portuguese</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/30/indisputable-proof-that-gaudi-was-portuguese/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/30/indisputable-proof-that-gaudi-was-portuguese/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of pictures]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/?p=7889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sez our foreign correspondent of Bar Agujas d&#8217;Ouro in Estremoz, Portugal. Its radical eclecticism picknmixery  suggests the architect may have mistakenly interpreted the lack of aesthetic coordination in many cathedrals and other large, old, respectable buildings as the result of a synchronic design choice rather than the typical diachronic process in which committees regret [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avui switches to English</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/30/avui-switches-to-english/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/30/avui-switches-to-english/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Best writing there for ages, too:
Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /var/www/vhosts/avui.cat/httpdocs/inc/layout_main.php on line 1233
Fatal error: Call to a member function FetchNextObject() on a non-object in /var/www/vhosts/avui.cat/httpdocs/inc/layout_main.php on line 1238
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		<title>Spanish football celebrations on Barcelona Ramblas</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/30/spanish-football-celebrations-on-barcelona-ramblas/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/30/spanish-football-celebrations-on-barcelona-ramblas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of ball games]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Chappell must have stayed up in conservative, nationalist Gracia if he had a quiet night. We were with friends on Carretera de Sans, and I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen as many Spanish flags. Delicious detail: two young ladies, their prodigious assets barely concealed, beating up a violent pimp-ish type and immediately seducing some [...]]]></description>
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