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Translating Hamlet into Siberian

Posted: January 24th 2010 11:22.

How would you describe the relationship of the Slav Francisco with his mother?

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Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Languages, Les bourgeois, Monsters, Stones and metals

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

The universality of bu/bo/boo

Posted: August 16th 2009 20:26.

The strange shrieks of theatrical monsters often don’t require translation.

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Categories: Empire, God, the angels and the orders of the faithful, Languages, Theatre

Mole models in Cervantes

Posted: April 9th 2009 17:43. Last modified: August 31st 2009 10:23

From saviour to saved to savoury: the de-/remystification of bodily imperfection.

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Categories: (Pre-)Roman, Early Middle, Empire, Flocks and work animals, Heathen gods, Liberals & locals, Pagans

1485, and how to beat it

Posted: February 27th 2009 23:28. Last modified: February 28th 2009 21:06

Use spam calls from TelefĂłnica as a free sex chat service and they may leave you alone.

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Categories: Les bourgeois, Spectacles, The law court

Macbitch in Paris

Posted: November 20th 2008 11:24.

CC says that Telva says that Jaume Plensa is simply panting to design some sets for Verdi’s Macbetch. I blame Telva’s legions of copy editors this time–they get Toulouse wrong too–but there’s no reason why not: “So this is the story of Lady Macbitch and her husband. The Queen stimulates herself with the props of [...]

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Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog, Theatre

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