Status Updates From Homage to Catalonia

The one Spanish word that no foreigner can avoid learning is “mañana.”

Whenever it is conceivably possible, the business of today is put off until mañana..


In Spain nothing, from a meal to a battle, ever happens at the appointed time. As a general rule things happen too late, but just occasionally—just so that you shan't even be able to depend on their happening late—they happen too early.

"Yo se manejar fusil. No se manejar ametralladora. Quiero apprender ametralladora. Quando vamos apprender ametralladora?"

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