Spanish literature – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

January tweets

The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for October

More rubbish.

Organ-grinder in courtyard - Bruno Schulz illustration to his story Księga, The Book, 1937.

Burt Reynolds, the source for George Best’s account of what he did with his money?

With a early description by Arturo Barea of the railway Reynolds was filming on when he recited the immortal lines..

Original British lobby card for 100 Rifles, showing Jim Brown and Burt Reynolds.

Singing Organ-Grinder tweets for April

Cranking it up along the River Lea.

Organ-grinding tweets for March 2018

The latest barrel organ news from Hackney, London.

Section of London-Harwich in 1675, crossing the River Lea at Bow.

I am the Crippled Demon, Hell’s fleas, the inventor of puppets

A half-translation of a list of minor torments by Luis Vélez de Guevara for a day on which the Christian Devil triumphed.

How to perform El retablo de Maese Pedro aka El retablo de la libertad de Melisendra in Don Quixote with one puppeteer and a narrator/bottler

Whether Cervantes saw it or not, it is possible as he describes.

Gustave Doré's hallucinogenic 1863 engraving.

Winchester is the centre of English civilisation

Sez Lucio Vicente López in Recuerdos de viaje (1881). This is apparently in part due to the Normans having invaded without women, thus enabling the maintenance of The Saxon Character. He’s wrong. Winchester is suspiciously continental, while Romsey is Ethelflaeda, who sang psalms while skinny-dipping in the Test, and lithe & lusty hooligans.

Cuckoos

A new translation of Joan Maragall’s poem about the anarchist bombing of the Barcelona Opera in 1893, and a limerick by the monkey.

A demon hands a terrorist an Orsini bomb, on Gaudí's Sagrada Familia.

Did the house that Jack built come from Spain?

Or, How to cook the old lady who swallowed a fly without stooping to cannibalism. Cumulative songs (and monstrous nested stuffing recipes) in Quixote and Estebanillo González, with the grossest video you’ll see today.