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Friday, November 4, 2011

currently reading

A Piano in The Pyrenees
by Tony Hawks, 2006

and

The Basque Country
by Paddy Woodworth, 2008

and

Wend Magazine
Volume 6, Issue 3, 2011

2 comments:

JustinM said...

I started reading The Basque Country but had to stop because it made me want to go there too much. Someday.

mindful mule said...

Justin:
I’m realizing as I read along that I know very little of the Basques. Or Spain/France, for that matter. There’s a bit of dark romance in it all. I’m not even sure what that mean’s really or if that’s a saying. It just feels like a very real and deep culture there and a rootedness in the land and landscape and even a level of politics that I’m so unfamiliar with and perhaps missing. I find it interesting and unexpected that the author keeps using the phrase “indigenous culture.”