Trafika Europe 6 - Arabesque

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but when the Russian revolution began to break with analogical typography into even these farmers’ minds, the ears traveled south out of the country, and that was how they came to Las Mar i smas , the great inaccessible swamp south of the Spanish town of Sevilla, traversed over the next few weeks by long, rickety columns of ears who schlepped their ambiguous genitalia through water and mud, until they were finally able to rinse them clean again in the Guadalquivir and advance across the bridges at Sanlúcar and, via Jerez la Frontera, reach the dry Spanish roads, in whose ditches they joined Spanish ears coming from the north. Many ears were distracted by the incessant couplings to which this meeting gave way, but the majority, their labiae

minorae blushing furiously, headed in the direction to which their diminutive penises pointed, namely south in the direction of Algeciras. That was also the goal of those ears progressing eastward from Granada through Malaga or Antequera, but because the climate and the weather did not permit either of the groups to travel by day, and because the nighttime journey was carr ied out wi th abstraction and cynicism, the forerunners arrived in time to find that the war from which they had fled was already underway. Most came to a baffled halt following the battle’s ultimate din and copulated confusedly until the Treaty of Versailles underscored the winner so emphatically that they all headed for the small town of La Linea, from which they

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