Not long ago in an article about this binnacle I was on the point of saying that Agustín García Calvo was the only lucid thinker who was staying in Spain. I did not do it because I remembered another man who also deserves this consideration. The awards and decorations re-stamp on me, but when someone like Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio receives them not...
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Sánchez Ferlosio I reward Cervantes
Slovenly words (VIII): DRUNKARD
We recapture the book Origin of the slovenly words of José Calles Vales (Publishing house Libsa, 2002) to know where from there proceeds the word (without the second intentions and without intention of offending) … DRUNKARD. adj. Intoxicated; it presents itself without knowledge that has consumed a lot of alcohol. The difficulty of the origin of this word does not reside in...
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Andy Warhol in Madrid
The mechanical eye inevitable Marilyn Se inaugurated yesterday and today in the evening scarcely there was a pair of dozens of visitors, good is true that it has been a rainy and cold day in the capital. Again the bad habit of not having the catalog to the sale the first ones...
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Wizard
Zabiudisimodias Grzgor, known as Zab, is a wizard who wants to acquire the power to redeem the evil of the world. But as his teacher affirms: "The nature of the magic supposes controlling persons and things....
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Indiscriminate countermeasures
During the Second World war it was frequent that the Nazi were taking indiscriminate countermeasures against the civil population the actions carried out against them by the resistance. Today, we see like the habitual one...
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The web of the UNESCO in Spanish
© Yann Arthus-Bertrand / ”The Terre vue du Ciel”, Namibia, Kaokoland Region – Landscape of Himbas’ countryland. Taken photo of the web of the UNESCO “The Public Information bureau of the UNESCO finishes of...
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Lanfeust of Troy
Every Troy citizen possesses a magic, more or less useful capacity. The young man Lanfeust can warm the metal with the eyes, therefore, logically, he started by being the blacksmith of the people. But...
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The Route of the Silk (VI): the History
Stupa in memory of the abbot of the monastery of Dunhuang (photo: © H.Uhlig) The denomination Route of the Silk was adopted, in the middle of the XIXth century, by the Austrian geologist baron Ferdinand von Richthofen. The Chinese Zhang...
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The Route of the Silk (V): Khotan and Turfan
In the previous chapter we comment on the exhibition Warriors of Xian, which continues until January 9 in the Center of Art the Fourth Deposit of the Foundation Channel of Elizabeth II, in the Square...
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