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El gallito inglés / le coq anglais

Posted: September 15th 2009 16:47. Last modified: February 2nd 2010 22:41

Proud English cock, limp Latin hen: the binary opposition of English and Spanish fowls as a metaphor for the contrast between growing British military might and declining Spanish power.

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Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Heathen philosophers, Les bourgeois, Poets

Cock and bull

Posted: February 5th 2004 18:04. Last modified: May 31st 2009 09:15

I just don’t get it. While one bunch of nutters has finally managed to destroy Catalunya’s last Osborne bull for being too Spanish, another bunch of crazies is going round putting up things that look pretty damn Gallic to me:

OK, now here’s a challenge: discuss this solely with reference to the aesthetic merits of the [...]

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Categories: Of decorating with pictures, Splog, Theatre

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Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 14 de març de 1918 Ara, finalment, dĂłna gust de viure a Catalunya. La unanimitat Ă©s completa. Tothom estĂ  d’acord. Tots hem tingut, tenim o tindrem, indefectiblement, la grip. Fa quatre o cinc anys que llegeixo, cada dia, el Glosari de Xènius. En aquest moment no sembla pas haver-hi, per a la secciĂł d’Eugeni d’Ors, tant d’entendriment com en altres èpoques. [...]
  • 14 de març de 1919 L’agitaciĂł obrera torna a abrivar-se. Tothom afirma que els conflictes que hi ha en porta tindran unes proporcions mai no vistes. A travĂ©s dels diaris Ă©s impossible de saber exactament el que es discuteix. La informaciĂł Ă©s confusa, difusa i controlada. L’obscuritat Ă©s total. Molts tramvies sĂłn accionats ja per soldats. A les gabelles, la [...]

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