Majorca, After the Rain

Majorca, After the Rain

War and Peace and Catalan. A close up on graffiti lyrics.

Date(s): 2007. Photos by Aymar. 1 - 9 of 9 Total. 1207 Visits.

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Cala Ratjada
After the rain. Wall space for hire. - With reference to the street name, a swim shoed cardinal would have looked even better than a red sedan.

2
Cala Ratjada
Left wing haiku (in a broad sense). Everyone pitches in to make the streets more interesting. Technically some form of chiasmus. (Better known Madonna lyrics on the same subject: do not cry for me Argentina.) - There is a soccer field between the two walls. In fairness, there is a much nicer looking sports and recreation ground not far off and equally public. You just have to look for it.

3
Cala Ratjada
Elementary arithmetic. Belgium is not mentioned for obvious reasons.

4
Cala Ratjada
Back to the future. Autonomy was a serious issue at the beginning of the 20th century. The big panacea of the times. Particular geographical location, in the rear of a potential enemy, did obviously help. The charismatic appeal did however go beyond that. Ethical values and principles were suddenly at stake. Miguel de Unamuno, a licenciato in Greek rhetorics, had no problems in preaching the new gospel in Salamanca. Anything dealing with intangible future benefits could probably described as such. Even Sun Yat Sen was affected.

Contemporary footage: Two great and itself rather harmless (or even marginally beneficial) land annexation programs clash in Verdun, India butting into the Euro-Asian landmass, and everyone proposes a face saving script. As popular as hacking in another day and age. (Better known Th.Mann contribution, defense of the Platonic spirit in the Vosges forest. Something like that. The outline of the original term paper still detectable.) Main point, Una...

5
Cala Ratjada
Tri-lingual wall graffiti. Rosetta stone of sorts.

6
Cala Ratjada
Osborne bull. Cujones something. Not sure if it amounts to a political statement. In any case colorful.

7
Cala Ratjada
Under a swaying canopy. Not sure if Murdoch would even contemplate such an acquisition.

8
Maria Antonia Munar
Faded election poster. The picture should have been taken in a studio but I cannot quite figure out the pupil reflections.

The poster is in Catalan, the official language (some subgroups) of the state of Aragon until the unification. Pocket definition for the lite traveler: Catalan is Castilian enriched by about 20% langue d'oc vocabulary. Could also be seen the other way round. However you want to slice it. An exotic looking (Xanadu) 'x' is sometimes used to indicate an unvoiced dental sibilant (the 'shoe' sound). The end vowel is frequently chopped off.

A public employee is expected to respond in whatever sub-idiom he or she is addressed. (Emulation works more the other way round.)

9
Maria Antonia Munar
Tour guide preface. I did pick the Castilian one. Self assertion where it counts.

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