Trafika Europe 6 - Arabesque

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traversal was secured by small, specially designed horse-drawn carts, offered abode to quite a few emigrant ears, as well as the two large, radically structured groups that constituted Don Quixote Part I andCalderón’s tragedies. For security’s sake, the groups were combined so that a first glance could not unravel whichwas thework of interest. This organizational principle was so structured that, when it reached its climax, any random,superficialagreement between the two giants’ works was exploited by the groupings, so that entirely new, or i g ina l s tor i es materialized for the illiterate hastily making his way through the tunnel. Enterprising British editors in the port city exploited this idea, with the result that the ignorant fishermen’s accounts of that long, teeming ceiling formed

the basis for quite a few broadcasts of serial English trash. The Forsyte Saga , for example, can thank that resounding ceiling for its final three convul s i ve and melodramatic volumes. In 1975 General Franco’s death paved the way for these diminutive treasures to return to more national vaults. The return, however, was an incarnat ion of subt le difficulties. Fatally, there was no reliable ship route between Gibraltar and the Spanish mainland, it was only by way of ferry to Tangier and a second stop along the Spanish coast at Algeciras that the enterprise was possible. Af ter severa l ni ght s ’ deliberation and periodic copulation, the two groups decided among themselves that each should attempt to shift back to their original

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