Laboring

Labor Day in Spain is celebrated on May 1. It’s a national holiday, and it’s called día del trabajador. Everyone who can, takes a break. On that day my running partner and I went south to a village called Burganes de Valverde in the province of Zamora, where a footrace was being held.We left at 10 a.m. The two-hour drive took us nearly three hours, plus stops, because we chose a scenic route and then visited several towns on the way to:wander the markets,admire the architecture, andenjoy our ...

Boulder

http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781913505387?aff=RainTaxiEva BalthasarTranslated by Julia SanchesAnd Other Stories ($17.95)by Abby Walthausen New arguments are always popping up these days for the dubious title of the "first globalization"—phenomena as disparate as the spice trade, the crusades, the whaling industry. Catalan novelist Eva Balthasar (or perhaps the wry galley cook who narrates her newly translated novel) might get a kick out of extending the rebrand to boulders, which were, aft...

The Ferrante Coven

This essay was first made available last month, exclusively for our Patreon supporters. If you want to support Full Stop’s original literary criticism, please consider becoming a Patreon supporter. When the pseudonymous Spanish author Carmen Mola won the prestigious Planeta literary prize in October 2021, three men came forward to accept the prize and the one-million euro award that went with it. Until this moment, the identity of the author was unknown. Most assumed Mola was a woman, e...

El Alquimista - The Alchemist - en Español

Henry Every

Henry Every (b. 1653), also known as Henry Avery, Benjamin Bridgeman, ‘Long Ben’ and (incorrectly) John Avery, was one of the most savage and successful pirates in the Golden Age of Piracy. Capturing a treasure ship of the Mughal emperor in 1695 with a cargo worth over $95 million today, he promptly disappeared and was never seen again. Thanks to his jackpot capture of the Ganij-i-Sawai, Every gained the nickname ‘Arch Pirate’. It has long been said that Every’s huge success inspired ma...

Minium and cinnabar

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Minium (definition) See all of Minium, no other writeups in this node. (definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:12:14 Min"i*um [L. minium, an Iberian word, the Romans getting all their cinnabar from Spain; cf. Basque armine�xa0;.] Chem. A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, a...

The Body of Love in Almodóvar's Cinema: Metaphor and Metonymy of the Body and Body Parts: Metaphor and Symbol: Vol 25, No 3

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Quichotte - Profusion Effect - cf Cervantez