A paseo in nineteenth-century Cádiz/ Pio Baroja
(Original Spanish text at the end of this post. Louis Villalba translated it into English) On a winter Sunday afternoon at dusk, I did not know why I decided to leave the San Fernando stage and stay in Cádiz. There was the Sunday sadness of the seaports on the dock. I did not feel happy […]
The fundamental difference between rich and poor/George Orwell
The mob (the thought runs) are such low animals that they would be dangerous if they had leisure; it is safer to keep them too busy to think. A rich man who happens to be intellectually honest, if he is questioned about the improvement of working conditions, usually says something like this: ‘We know that […]
