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	<title>kalebeul &#187; Of poets</title>
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	<description>anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 10:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Revealed: the brutal face of Spanish nationalism</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/06/revealed-the-brutal-face-of-spanish-nationalism/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/06/revealed-the-brutal-face-of-spanish-nationalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Meet El Novio de la Muerte/Death&#8217;s Groom, back from the tomb (he wasn&#8217;t human anyway), and his angel-wolf Canute:

Hear him sing &#8220;Agua de los ríos&#8221;:

More here, including ¡how Canuto saved Death&#8217;s Groom from serpents! ¡the treasure and the skeleton&#8217;s ring! and ¡El Novio&#8217;s unfortunate relationship with the head of the bað̞a&#8217;xoθ paddleboat fleet! Extremadura has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get another of Paul de Kock&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/29/get-another-of-paul-de-kocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Ulysses: &#8220;I suppose the people gave him that nickname going about with his tube from one woman to another.&#8221; Junius Henri Browne wrote in 1873 that he &#8220;gained a much worse reputation [in the US] for licentious stories than he deserved, from the spurious and prurient rubbish that used to be put off on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barcelona monument mistranslates Celan, misrepresents the Holocaust</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/27/barcelona-monument-mistranslates-celan-misrepresents-the-holocaust/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/27/barcelona-monument-mistranslates-celan-misrepresents-the-holocaust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Decline]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[The monument is a quality marble tomb round about where the sea gate was, on which Habsburg general Josep Moragues&#8217; head hung in a cage for 12 years from 1715-1727, his body having previously been quartered on the Ramblas. This for surrendering on a Bourbon pardon at the end of the War of the Spanish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jaroslav Hašek in Barcelona, almost</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/24/jaroslav-hasek-in-barcelona-almost/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/24/jaroslav-hasek-in-barcelona-almost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Just before he died, says Cecil Parrott in The bad Bohemian, the author of The good soldier Švejk (that&#8217;s Shvake: &#8220;No one pronounces it Shvike&#8211;not even in Germany&#8221;) drafted a letter to the district police:
I, the undersigned, ask respectfully to be kindly given the necessary passport for a stay in Spain (Barcelona, Calle Rosellos [sic: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales of Catalan-language fiction in English translation on Amazon</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/02/27/sales-of-catalan-language-fiction-in-english-translation-on-amazon/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/02/27/sales-of-catalan-language-fiction-in-english-translation-on-amazon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Ferran Mascarell said a couple of months back that
Frankfurt perseguia tres objectius: millorar la presència de la literatura catalana en el món, entendre el paper fonamental de l&#8217;edició catalana amb els seus cinc segles d&#8217;història al darrere i ensenyar al món l&#8217;existència d&#8217;una cultura forta, plena i integral. El primer objectiu suposo que ha funcionat, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al Museu de la ciutat hi guarden el biquini de la primera sueca</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/02/21/al-museu-de-la-ciutat-hi-guarden-el-biquini-de-la-primera-sueca/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/02/21/al-museu-de-la-ciutat-hi-guarden-el-biquini-de-la-primera-sueca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Sez Damià Pons. (Thanks JD)
]]></description>
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		<title>Not the Mataró I know</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/02/20/not-the-mataro-i-know/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/02/20/not-the-mataro-i-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[A short story &#8220;El lobo de las sierras&#8221; published in The new monthly magazine in 1851 evokes a typical day in the life of a British railway engineer on the Catalan coast (the Mataro-Barcelona line opened in 1848):
It was enough to have disquieted a man of stouter nerves than Tom, who, torn, stupid and intoxicated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yet another facking neo-Gothic historical thriller set in Barcelona</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/02/20/yet-another-facking-neo-gothic-historical-thriller-set-in-barcelona/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/02/20/yet-another-facking-neo-gothic-historical-thriller-set-in-barcelona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;En plena disputa per les obres de l&#8217;AVE, que amenacen amb danyar l&#8217;estructura de la Sagrada Família, Manuel Otaño, un sacerdot jesuïta que treballa al Vaticà, torna a Barcelona per a supervisar les obres del projecte més ambiciós d&#8217;Antoni Gaudí. Aviat es veurà embolicat en una intriga que girarà entorn d&#8217;un manuscrit oposat que podria [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spanish Prostitute Moment in pre-war French popular novels</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/08/04/the-spanish-prostitute-moment-in-pre-war-french-popular-novels/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/08/04/the-spanish-prostitute-moment-in-pre-war-french-popular-novels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Victor Margueritte]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a crucial element in what remains of French realist writing in the 1920s and 30s, which, for this reason and others, was more popular than praised. Based on some reading and no maths, I would venture that in a book of (x + y) pages (not counting the open letter of support from [...]]]></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 ap Simon</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>Hilarious Shadow of the wind reviews</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/08/hilarious-shadow-of-the-wind-reviews/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/08/hilarious-shadow-of-the-wind-reviews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Ruiz Zafón]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Someone&#8217;s passed me the English edition, with the usual gibberish-infested flap. The Scotsman describes it as having &#8220;a dramatic tension that so many contemporary novels today seem to lack,&#8221; while Scotland on Sunday says, &#8220;The translation by Lucia Graves is excellent, mixing formality with poetry, so the rambling prose occasionally sparkles with lovely phrases &#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good judges</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/06/05/good-judges/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/06/05/good-judges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Azorín]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always wondered where Spanish judges, particularly local ones, find justification for their habit of ignoring judicial precedent and ruling whatever the hell they feel like. Having read Azorín&#8217;s Los pueblos (1904) yesterday evening, I think I&#8217;m getting closer. 
It contains the story of Don Alonso, a rural judge in Ciudad Real, who is presented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hemp horses</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/28/hemp-horses/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/28/hemp-horses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Benito Pérez Galdós]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Of flocks and work animals]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently the four corners of a square reel used in this Huesca village in hemp yarn production represent four horses bound for France. I wonder which horses these were: those that awaited the Duke of Calabria, when he sought with three others to flee the court of King Ferdinand of Aragon, or others? (If folksy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The oldest surname in the world</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/09/the-oldest-surname-in-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/09/the-oldest-surname-in-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Ramón J Sender]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ramón J Sender&#8217;s La tesis de Nancy is the account of an affair between strawman and strawwoman, in which Curro, Work, a part-gypsy ingénu-cynic from the Seville town of Alcalá de Guadaira &#8220;who devotes himself to the resale of bullfight tickets in the summer and to wine-tasting for the rest of the year&#8221; leaves Dutch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfume</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/02/16/perfume/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/02/16/perfume/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor ap Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Ruiz Zafón]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Some great location- and Catalan actor-spotting fun at Méliès last night, where we saw Tom Tykwer&#8217;s version of Patrick Süskind&#8217;s Perfume (buy the novel in the USA or the UK). Easy enough: the torture-turned-orgy scene in El Pueblo Español; the various use of Girona&#8217;s Pujada Sant Domènec, with the palace arch and the view up [...]]]></description>
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