“En un piso de la calle 52 Este de Nueva York, ante los ojos conmovidos de una mujer y un hombre que oyen tras las ventanas cerradas el viento del invierno y el rumor como de catarata de la ciudad a la que asoman muy pocas veces y encuentran en el baúl de Ramiro Retratista … More El jinete polaco
I am still looking for all the right Scandinavian, but especially Danish carols, but many good recordings are Norwegian. Here is the choir of Oslo Cathedral, with an old photograph on which you can see a tree with real candles. They have candles on the pews in church on Christmas Eve, too. I have already … More Dejlig er jorden
The younger set believes in going to the mall Saturday evenings after work. Had I not been induced to try it I would not have known that today you can have DKNY jeans for the price of Lee. So here they are, the Mercer Street Skinny, which means my new look is almost complete. I … More Brave new fashion (and brave new consulting business)
I woke up this morning excited to keep reading about that utterly strange planet, Spain. One of the things I do not like about working here at Vichy State is that there is not enough context here to be a Hispanist and I have no colleagues to speak of; my best colleagues, really, are the … More Dejlig er den himmel blå
Axé.
This is to get over reading about the Inquisition, which was abolished in 1834. These people here are not Catholic, and are thus in a position to provide relief. Axé.
I am now studying the literature of the Iberian Peninsula so as to teach it and there is a lot to know that I did not. Ramón Llull knew classical Arabic and wrote his first book and other texts in it, for instance; he had learned Arabic so as better to convert the infidel, just … More Ramón Llull
Now that it is winter, we can discuss Christmas. Here is a recording from Copenhagen, 1975, and I see am going to have to go into town and attend some sessions at the Spotted Cat. Hattie, on whose blog I cannot post reliably, is going to send me some Danish DVDs and I may have … More Santa Claus Blues
It is now winter, that beautiful season of cold and growing light. The Sun has moved into Capricorn, the best sign. To celebrate winter we will look at the fountain of Cibeles in Madrid, with snow, and the stela of 18 Rabbit, our ruler at Copán. Sur le Noël, morte saison Lorsque les loups vivent … More Winter
As we know, I have taken the opportunity of the new Bak’tun to consider that we have a dawning of sorts, and to consider that it is as though the Twins had been resurrected and we were all back from Xibalba. This means that the blog topics have shifted from can I speak? and how … More 13 Bak’tun
coldhearted scientist وداد 