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	<title>kalebeul &#187; Of philosophers</title>
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	<description>anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>10 sensational revelations concerning Étienne Cabet and his Journey to Icaria, with a biography of the author</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/06/10-sensational-revelations-concerning-etienne-cabet-and-his-journey-to-icaria-with-a-biography-of-the-author/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/06/10-sensational-revelations-concerning-etienne-cabet-and-his-journey-to-icaria-with-a-biography-of-the-author/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Of men and women]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Étienne Cabet&#8217;s Voyage en Icarie (excerpt) is his novelised idealisation of Napoleonic nationalist totalitarianism: if not exactly a New Jerusalem, then certainly a New Paris, built around a New Seine, designed by its dictator, the Icar. This book and its hype led hundreds of families, mainly French, principally artesans (sez James Chastain) to doom and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of the honest galley slave, and other Catalans of colour</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/05/of-the-honest-galley-slave-and-other-catalans-of-colour/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/05/of-the-honest-galley-slave-and-other-catalans-of-colour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 08:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters Domestic and Foreign (1754):
I am now in Barcelona; but the next Week I intend to go on through your Town of Valencia to Alicant, and thence you shall be sure to hear from me farther, for I make account to winter there. The Duke of Ossuna passed by here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Islamic bridge of civilisation to the West over-rated&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/01/islamic-bridge-of-civilisation-to-the-west-over-rated/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/01/islamic-bridge-of-civilisation-to-the-west-over-rated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 12:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Sylvain Gouguenheim&#8217;s &#8216;&#8220;Aristote au Mont Saint-Michel&#8221; (Editions du Seuil), while not contending there is an ongoing clash of civilizations, makes the case that Islam was impermeable to much of Greek thought, that the Arab world&#8217;s initial translations of it to Latin were not so much the work of &#8220;Islam&#8221; but of Aramaeans and Christian Arabs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble on board</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/09/trouble-on-board/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/09/trouble-on-board/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Olympic torches on a Parisian bus reminded me of Josep Pla, smoking merrily away on oil tankers in the famous 1976 A fondo interview with Joaquín Soler Serrano:
 
Not having heard other recordings, I continue to wonder whether don José wasn&#8217;t playing up the accent for the occasion.
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		<title>Professor Blumenbach of Göttingen&#8217;s views on beauty in women</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/02/25/professor-blumenbach-of-gottingens-views-on-beauty-in-women/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/02/25/professor-blumenbach-of-gottingens-views-on-beauty-in-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[T Bell, MD, Kalogynomia, or the laws of female beauty  (1821):
Professor Blumenbach of Göttingen, whose profound science and perfect impartiality no one can doubt, does not hesitate to say, that the English are the most beautiful people on the globe. Nor is this wonderful when we consider that ENGLAND, perhaps exclusively, presents the combination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel Heinsius&#8217; solitary phoenix and the final words of the beastly bookseller of Barcelona</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/09/daniel-heinsius-unique-phoenix-and-the-final-words-of-the-beastly-bookseller-of-barcelona/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/09/daniel-heinsius-unique-phoenix-and-the-final-words-of-the-beastly-bookseller-of-barcelona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Ruiz Zafón]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Gustave Flaubert]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Ramon Miquel i Planas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1927 the Catalan literary researcher and writer, Ramon Miquel i Planas (1874-1950; henceforth MiP) wrote a little book, published in a bibliophile edition, called La llegenda del llibreter assassí. In it he reflects on the origins and recycling of &#8220;Le bibliomane ou le nouveau Cardillac&#8221;, an anonymous tale published as if true in 1836 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French exam</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/06/24/french-exam/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/06/24/french-exam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Camilo José Cela Trulock]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[I omitted one feasible fraudulent etymology from the Viadós post because the etymon in question is little known and less read, even in his own country, whichever that was. Here he is anyway, in another anecdote from Cela&#8217;s late but frequently excellent A bote pronto:
Some 65 years ago, more or less, possibly more, when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gerald Brenan&#8217;s children</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/05/06/gerald-brenans-children/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/05/06/gerald-brenans-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 14:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Gerald Brenan]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Unusually, the Spanish entry is more complete than the English one, mentioning the numerous illegitimates he fathered in Yegen, so numerous, in fact, that it is said that he resisted returning for fear of finding more. Was their omission from South from Granada an editorial decision, or was that just the way the upper classes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspirational tale for bubonic plagiarists</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/11/29/inspirational-tale-for-bubonic-plagiarists/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/11/29/inspirational-tale-for-bubonic-plagiarists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Ramon Miquel i Planas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a slightly paraphrased anecdote from Ramon Miquel i Planas&#8217; El llibreter assassí de Barcelona (1928), which his footnote seems to imply was taken from Le livre, vi, 131 (Paris, 1885):
Emile Girardin and Charles Latour-Mézeray are two young literary bohemians running round 1820s Paris. Girardin has just published a novel and is feeling fairly desperate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A riffraff in the Rif</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/09/22/a-riffraff-in-the-rif/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/09/22/a-riffraff-in-the-rif/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Martí de Riquer]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[We all know, don&#8217;t we, that riffraff is from
Middle English riffe raffe, from  rif and raf, one and all, from Anglo-Norman rif et raf, rifle et rafle : Old French rifler, to rifle; see rifle2 + Old French raffler, to carry off (from  raffle, act of seizing; see raffle1).
So, nothing whatsoever to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barcelona and the decline of the city-state</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/07/26/barcelona-and-the-decline-of-the-city-state/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/07/26/barcelona-and-the-decline-of-the-city-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fernand Braudel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Late Middle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here from Braudel (The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II/El Mediterráneo y el mundo mediterráneo en la época de Felipe II) is some context for today&#8217;s Libro verde item on the fall of Barcelona to Juan II&#8217;s great beasts:
At the end of the fourteenth century, the Mediterranean belonged to its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out-of-date ideologies</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/07/09/out-of-date-ideologies/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/07/09/out-of-date-ideologies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2006 19:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[José Ortega y Gasset]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Daft slogans are, for tourists, the most visible evidence of Barcelona&#8217;s role as a Disneyland of absurd and forgotten ideologies. The success of the dominant ultra-nationalist caste in Catalonia in stamping out Spanish and non-standard Catalan from public services is clearly reminiscent of that of Mussolini&#8217;s lot in mid-1920s Italy with respect to regional dialects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lowly trinity</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/02/15/lowly-trinity/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/02/15/lowly-trinity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Late Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Martí de Riquer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From El llibre de tres (“The book of three&#8221;):
Tres plers són en aquest món: beure en taverna, jaure en bordell e cagar en prat.
Or:
Three are the pleasures this world us doth yield: to drink in a tavern, to screw in a brothel, to $hit in a field.
The edition currently available of this late C14th parody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sultan&#8217;s organ, and other stuff</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/01/24/the-sultans-organ-and-other-stuff/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/01/24/the-sultans-organ-and-other-stuff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ernesto Giménez Caballero]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a good organ miscellania page here. The Sultan and I anecdote was one of the few useful pieces of information I knew as a child. The Spanish connection lies in the Novelda rock organ, of which more here, and the information that &#8220;Spanish organs of the 18th century include a number of mischievous sound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ernesto Giménez Caballero and Catalan totalitarianism</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/01/18/ernesto-gimenez-caballero-and-catalan-totalitarianism/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/01/18/ernesto-gimenez-caballero-and-catalan-totalitarianism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ernesto Giménez Caballero]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a commonplace that essential similarities exist between the programmes of the Catalan left and the Spanish extreme right (I&#8217;m thinking in particular of ERC and the various Falangist splinters): an apparently psychotic obsession with the nation and its symbols, a determination to impose an all-powerful state, and a willingness (nay, a desire) to use [...]]]></description>
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