Trafika Europe 6 - Arabesque

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by briefly drawing just a little closer together. After that they divided themselves again according to the original criteria,withQuixoteI.heading for Cordoba to track down some of their fellows, while the Calderón group split up, the antas sacramentales portion electing to remain in Malaga, while the comedies and intrigues shifted their exile to Arroyo west of Torremolinos, a location so remote that they quickly became garbled. In the tunnel of Gibraltar there remain only a few scattered groups of communistic bent and a collection of poems from Romancero Gitano, though the drama Yerma by García Lorca has temporarily surfaced. The appearance of works dating from after the ear flight of 1919-20 is connected, naturally enough, with the fact that the Spanish Civil War, which began in

version, and so it was that late one night two venerable volumes tumbled down into the wagon belonging to a bibliophilic English colonel, who only upon homecoming could ascertain that he was in possession of such precious objects. What it must have cost the ears to reach such levels of tangibility, such that the colonel on his next leave could find a buyer and reap the fruits of his good fortune and the ears’ efforts for a fantastic sum, can hardly be conceived. The antiquarian in Malaga who so happily disbursed the cash immediately sold these treasures to an astonished prelate in charge of the universitylibraryatAntequera. The ears skedaddled a few months later by forming a priest’s collar on an unwitting old geezer of a prefect, whom they then strangled in an archway’s striking shadow

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