Thoughts from Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops
9 August 2026
Awake, for morning in the bowl of night has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight And, lo, the hunter of the east has caught the sultan’s turret in a noose of light. Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable – Christopher Howse: ‘A Pilgrim in Spain’. Cosas de España/Galiza…
8 August 2028
Awake, for morning in the bowl of night has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight And, lo, the hunter of the east has caught the sultan’s turret in a noose of light. Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable – Christopher Howse: ‘A Pilgrim in Spain’. Cosas de España/Galiza…
The last pages of Kurt Andersen’s ‘Fantasyland’.
Effectively a summary of the book. Well worth a read. Meanwhile, a few things he wrote about Trump. Whose 2nd term will surely have confirmed Andersen’s view that Trump was the logical endpoint of trends of the last 50 or 60 years in particular. All written 10 years ago, before we reached peak Trump:- FANTASYLAND…
7 August 2026
Awake, for morning in the bowl of night has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight And, lo, the hunter of the east has caught the sultan’s turret in a noose of light. Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable – Christopher Howse: ‘A Pilgrim in Spain’. Cosas de España/Galiza…
6 August 2026
Awake, for morning in the bowl of night has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight And, lo, the hunter of the east has caught the sultan’s turret in a noose of light. Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable – Christopher Howse: ‘A Pilgrim in Spain’. Cosas de España/Galiza…
5 August 2026
Awake, for morning in the bowl of night has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight And, lo, the hunter of the east has caught the sultan’s turret in a noose of light. Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable – Christopher Howse: ‘A Pilgrim in Spain’. Cosas de España/Galiza…
4 August 2026
Awake, for morning in the bowl of night has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight And, lo, the hunter of the east has caught the sultan’s turret in a noose of light. Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable – Christopher Howse: ‘A Pilgrim in Spain’. Cosas de España/Galiza…
3 August 2026
Awake, for morning in the bowl of night has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight And, lo, the hunter of the east has caught the sultan’s turret in a noose of light. Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable – Christopher Howse: ‘A Pilgrim in Spain’. Cosas de España/Galiza…
2 August 2026
Awake, for morning in the bowl of night has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight And, lo, the hunter of the east has caught the sultan’s turret in a noose of light. Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable – Christopher Howse: ‘A Pilgrim in Spain’. Cosas de España/Galiza…
1 August 2026
Awake, for morning in the bowl of night has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight And, lo, the hunter of the east has caught the sultan’s turret in a noose of light. Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable – Christopher Howse: ‘A Pilgrim in Spain’. Cosas de España/Galiza…
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Thoughts from Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain 