1. Will the
questions be framed in both official languages, Catalán and Spanish?
2. If so,
will the Catalans rip up all the answers made in Spanish?
Of course,
if the Catalan for No is the same as it is in Spanish, this question
won't be as 'nice' as it would be otherwise.
But, anyway
. . . Sitting in a hotel in Nairobi many years ago, I noticed that a
chap across the room had, despite the distance between us, the most
piercing blue eyes imaginable. I later discovered this had been the
just-deceased actor Peter O'Toole. I imagine he had a lot of luck
with women. Some of it possibly good. BTW - When I say
'just-deceased', I mean yesterday. Not before I saw him in the
Nairobi hotel.
Talking of
women . . . I went to Paintings section of our new museum building
yesterday with my Ferrol friends Richard and Blanca. I was going to
say the Art section but, as this means anything these days, I had to
resort to 'Paintings' to be accurate. And there, by pure chance, I came across the
statue that was the model for the frontispiece to the recent
literary sensation - "Marry and be Submissive" (Casate y
Sé Sumisa).
- Alejandra Caldera Mato
- Diego Hurta de Uña
- Miguel Diós Blanco
The English equivalents of these are:-
- Alexandra Boiler I kill
- James Market Garden of Fingernail
- Michael White God.
The plate said they were lawyers but I have my doubts.
Finally . . . The Spanish word cachacascán doesn't appear in most dictionaries. Not even that of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language. As you'll have guessed, it comes from the English 'catch-as-catch-can' and appears to mean a form of wrestling popular in Mexico and places like that, where it's also known as lucha libre. Or 'free fight'. Which has nothing to do with being submissive within marriage. Or anywhere else.
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