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The story is about a writer (a writer who always speaks very fast) who is invited one day to make the of?cial opening speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair. This happens the year in which Catalan culture is the guest culture of the Fair. A year that could be, let’s say, 2007. The writer in question —Catalan himself and, hence, on his guard— hesitates before accepting the assignment. He thinks, “Now what should I do? Accept the invitation? Not accept it? Should I decline with a pleasant excuse? If I accept, what will people think? If I don’t accept, what will people think?”
I don’t know how these things work in other countries, but I can assure you that in my country people tend to think many thoughts, and to draw many conclusions. If you say one day that, when the tailor takes your measurements for a suit and asks, “Do you dress right or left?”, you answer that you dress right (or left), people draw conclusions. If you go to the fruit store and order apples they draw conclusions. If you order oranges, they draw them as well.

Whatever you do —dress right or left, buy apples or oranges— people have a very high degree of perspicacity. People are practically clairvoyant, and they always deduce one thing or another, right down to seeing cities that don’t appear on any map. If you step forward, you should have stood still. If you stand still, you should have stepped forward. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. But as it happens the writer in question feels he doesn’t owe anyone an apology for forming part of the culture they have invited to be the guest at Frankfurt that year, so he decides to accept. Obviously they will never propose to him that he make the of?cial opening speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair the year they invite the Turkish, Vietnamese, or N’gndunga culture. So he says yes, he’ll do it, and he sits right down at a table, gets out a ball point pen and a notebook, and starts ruminating on what he should say.

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You can see in the movie how the garbage collectors are using the same track to throw the biodegradable waste with the non recyclable garbage!
Amazing way to recycle…

Links:

• Catalan Letter to the Spanish Federation (in Catalan). (Translate to English adding the URL to the field from this webpage traductor.gencat.net/jsp/go2url.jsp?locale=en)
• Political Support from the Politicians to the friendly match (in Catalan). (Translate to English adding the URL to the field from this webpage traductor.gencat.net/jsp/go2url.jsp?locale=en)

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Èric and the Army of the Phoenix (2/5)

Èric and the Army of the Phoenix (3/5)

Èric and the Army of the Phoenix (4/5)

Èric and the Army of the Phoenix (5/5)

So the answer to the question is: NO, Manhattan is not larger than the Catalan Countries.

Manhattan = 1,537,195 people in 33.77 sq mi (22.96 sq mi land + 10.81 sq mi sea)
The Catalan Countries = (but more information in the Catalan version, I think you can understand the basic one) 13,534,721 people in 27,227.92sq mi (only Land)

After to be found in Ogassa (Girona), the next letter was discovered in his office.

I have lived seventy-five years as a slave
in settled down Catalan Countries
by Spain, France (and for Italy)
since centuries ago.

I have lived fighting against this slavery
all the years of my adult life.
A slave nation, like an individual slave,
is a shame of the humanity and of the universe.

But a nation will never be free
if their sons do not want to risk their life
in its liberation and defense.

You, my friends, accept to me that victorious end
of my fight,
to counteract the cowardice,
of our leaders, people-overcrowders.

Today my nation becomes absolute sovereign in me.
They have lost a slave.
My nation is a little freer,
because I am in you, my friends!

Lluís M. Xirinacs i Damians

Barcelona, August 6th, 2007
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Original letter (in Catalan)

He viscut esclau setanta-cinc anys
en uns Països Catalans
ocupats per Espanya, per França (i per Itàlia)
des de fa segles.

He viscut lluitant contra aquesta esclavitud
tots els anys de la meva vida adulta.
Una nació esclava, com un individu esclau,
és una vergonya de la humanitat i de l’univers.

Però una nació mai no serà lliure
si els seus fills no volen arriscar
llur vida en el seu alliberament i defensa.

Amics, accepteu-me
aquest final absolut victoriós
de la meva contesa,
per contrapuntar la covardia
dels nostres líders, massificadors del poble.

Avui la meva nació
esdevé sobirana absoluta en mi.
Ells han perdut un esclau.
ella és una mica més lliure,
perquè jo sóc en vosaltres, amics!

Lluís M. Xirinacs i Damians

Barcelona, 6 d’agost de 2007
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