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But could she be trusted? How Gael Greene altered the course of restaurant criticism

Gael Greene, in 1971, often wore hats to photo shoots to avoid being recognized when approaching restaurants to review. 

(Ray Stubblebine / Associated Press)

Bill Addison considers the legacy of legendary New York magazine critic Gael Greene, who died Tuesday at age 88.

BY BILL ADDISONRESTAURANT CRITIC 

NOV. 1, 2022 5:50 PM PT

For several years before catching my first break as a restaurant critic in 2002, when I began writing regularly for an alt weekly in Atlanta, I made a practice out of learning the form. My means of study sound like an absurd relic now: I filled a thick binder full of restaurants reviews, written by the country’s most compelling critics. I printed them off the Internet, pre-paywalls, often when I was bored at temp jobs.

Among my study material was a piece I returned to many times for its sweep, intelligence and boldness. It published in 2000 with the headline “Gold-Plate Special,” a review written by Gael Greene, who had been New York magazine’s critic since 1968.

Greene, who died of cancer Nov. 1 at age 88, was one of the masterminds of modern restaurant criticism.

Greene crafted dining reviews into a literary form. She came to the job at a time when straightforward observations of an establishment’s food, atmosphere and service, smattered with wit and the occasional scathing invective, defined the genre. She was a reporter but also frequently made herself a character. Her prose was unapologetically lush; she was a proud sensualist who wrote two erotic novels during her career. In her reviews, barbs often landed like the well-made beurre blanc she must have eaten so often in the days of New York’s French-dominated gastronomy: vinegary, suave and cohesive.

Take the “Gold-Plate Special” essay. It a was critique about Alain Ducasse at the Essex House, but also a broader social narrative around the famous chef’s entry into the Manhattan dining world. The piece details several meals but equally traces the arc of the restaurant’s reception by New Yorkers. What began as starry-eyed public fawning — among the circles that cared about such arrivals, anyway — had descended into general incredulity over the exorbitant prices and uneven food.

The consensus seems to be that the sex crowd didn’t think there was enough sex and the food crowd didn’t think there was enough food.

— Gale Greene, on her memoir

Greene’s review is 4,000 words, nearly four times the length of a standard review, then and now, and a testament to the space that magazines would still give writers at the turn of the millennium. Yet the piece glides. The insults are amazing. A roulade of sole is “pathetic.” She says of a rye tuile flavored with sun-dried tomato and Parmesan and presented with much flourish: “I taste another just to be sure. It’s not even a big nothing. It’s a small embarrassing nothing.”

When she does finally love something — a pear dessert? “I’m in a waltz now with Fred Astaire. I’m cuter than Ginger, sexier than Rita, more graceful than Cyd.”

In the center of the piece, she details an in-person breakfast meeting she has with Ducasse. She writes: “‘You are the talk of New York, Alain,’ I begin.” She tells us he grins at her words, but the reader is already wincing and maybe chuckling a little meanly. This isn’t going to be pretty.

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Greene was born in Detroit. She worked as a reporter for the New York Post and freelanced for Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle and other publications before being hired by New York magazine, where she held the position of restaurant critic for 40 years. When Adam Platt was given the title of critic in 2002, Greene wrote a part-time column for six additional years. She was laid off in 2008.

“It was narcissistic shock: moi?” she told the New York Times then of the news. “I thought I was a brand at New York magazine.”

Between those two seismic shifts in her professional life, she wrote a memoir, “Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess,” published in 2006, and maintained a website, insatiable-critic.com, where she cached many of her most memorable reviews and continued writing dining dispatches until 2020.

In her memoir, she described tours of duty through France’s Michelin-starred restaurants and revealed a dalliance with Elvis (who, she said, asked her to order him a fried egg sandwich from room service) as well as affairs with Burt Reynolds, Clint Eastwood and some of the chefs whose restaurants she critiqued. She defended her editorial decisions by disclosing the relationships in print, as in the 1977 review “I Love Le Cirque But Can I Be Trusted?”

“The [memoir] didn’t do as well as everyone hoped it would,” Greene told me over lunch in New York in 2016. “The consensus seems to be that the sex crowd didn’t think there was enough sex and the food crowd didn’t think there was enough food.”

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I was Eater’s national critic at the time and had started a passion project — an oral history of the women who led the way in American restaurant criticism — that I’m sorry to say I‘ve never completed. Greene was famous for her collection of hats; she wore them at public events and when she was being photographed, so that when she went hatless on reviews, she reasoned, she was less likely to be recognized.

I had met Greene on a couple of previous occasions and always felt awed by her ebullient grandness. She would toss her head back when she roared her husky, knowing laugh.

Restaurant criticism is a strange, singular, necessarily changing and sadly disappearing profession. Lifers in the field will likely cease to exist, and there are strong arguments why that should be the case. But Greene was a live-out-loud force whose path, even as she blazed it, vanished behind her. I trust she would not mind me sharing that during lunch in 2016 — over risotto and roasted salmon at Lincoln Ristorante, her choice — I sensed she wondered about her place in the world. She was buoyed by her work with Citymeals on Wheels, an organization to help feed New York’s homebound elderly that she co-founded with James Beard in 1981. Citymeals delivered more than 67 million meals during her lifetime.

Did she feel adequately recognized for her contributions to American food writing? I can’t say. Over a few bites of gelato at dessert, I told her about my binder and quoted a couple of lines from “Gold-Plate Special,” and she bellowed her laugh. I hope she took in my gratitude.

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Bill Addison is a James Beard Award-winning restaurant critic. He was previously national critic for Eater and has held critic positions at the San Francisco Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News and Atlanta magazine.

 

California could soon rise to the world’s 4th-largest economy

With the help of California’s tech industry, the state is expected to surpass Germany as the fourth-largest economy in the world, experts say.

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BY GRACE TOOHEYSTAFF WRITER 

NOV. 2, 2022 UPDATED 7:07 AM PT

California has long faced criticism for driving away business and workers, due to high taxes and prices and tough regulations.

A few high-profile business titans have loudly departed, most notably Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk, who moved Tesla’s headquarters — and himself — to Texas during the pandemic (though SpaceX remains headquartered in Southern California).

Nonetheless, there are mounting predictions from some economists that the Golden State could soon surpass Germany to become the world’s fourth-largest economy.

Moving from the world’s fifth- to fourth-largest economy would be another step up for California — which would trail only the U.S., China and Japan, countries with more than three times California’s population. But some economic experts say the expected bump may have more to do with Germany’s struggling economy and the falling value of the euro than California’s growth.

“The U.S. as a whole over the past decade grew a bit faster than Germany, and California grew faster than the U.S., on average,” said David Zeke, a USC assistant professor of economics. “So you have that growth trend there. But the reason why it might happen next year is because of this 15% depreciation” of the euro.

California would probably topple Germany because of its “relatively resilient” economy, even during the pandemic and now, facing high inflation, according to a recent Bloomberg opinion piece. The piece analyzed California’s and Germany’s past and projected gross domestic product, which in 2021 measured at $3.4 trillion and $4.2 trillion, respectively. The Bloomberg analysis forecast that this year and into next, California’s GDP would continue to grow slightly, while Germany’s would shrink, allowing California to take the lead.

Eugene Cornelius, senior director at the Center for Regional Economics at the Santa Monica-based Milken Institute, said he found Bloomberg’s prediction on target and expects California to surpass Germany in economic size soon, if it hasn’t already.

“I think this was the best kept secret,” Cornelius said. “Everybody was focusing on the California exoduses, the wildfires, the earthquakes and everything that was negative going on, but I don’t think anybody was paying attention to the growth.”

Although Gov. Gavin Newsom quickly touted the prediction as a sign of California’s prosperity, some experts note the metric is just one measure of California’s economy. It fails to take into consideration important factors such as housing affordability, income inequality, cost of living and wealth distribution, all key areas in which California has continued to struggle, making it difficult for middle- and low-income families to thrive in many parts of the state, according to economic experts.

“California GDP being pretty big doesn’t mean that your median [person] in California is necessarily better off,” Zeke said. “It just means the aggregate economy is more important, is larger, compared to other large economies.”

So, what is GDP?

GDP stands for gross domestic product and is an economic data point that is “widely used as a reference point for the health of national and global economies,” according to the International Monetary Fund.

“It counts all of the output generated” in a certain geopolitical region, such as a country or state, according to the IMF.

GDP measures the monetary value of all final goods and services produced in one jurisdiction during a specific period, often quarterly or yearly. GDP can be measured by taking into account inflation, called “real GDP,” or population, called “GDP per capita,” but most basically is measured in nominal GDP — simply the value of a region’s outputs at current prices. This is the measurement used in world rankings in which California is compared with other countries.

“This is just a statement about the aggregate scale of the California economy,” Zeke said, noting the nominal GDP doesn’t look at inequality or wages. “That’s not a statement about the welfare of the average Californian, ... that’s a completely different measure.”

Why is California in a position to surpass Germany?

California businesses in the last year have outpaced German companies, especially in three of the state’s top industries: technology hardware, media and software, according to Bloomberg editor in chief emeritus Matthew Winkler. But he also noted the state’s strides in renewable energy — a sector that Winkler said has been the “fastest-growing” in recent years for both California and Germany.

“The margin of Germany’s nominal GDP of $4.22 trillion over California’s $3.357 trillion last year was the smallest on record and is about to disappear,” Winkler wrote in the piece.

Other economic analysts pointed to California’s low unemployment rate, strong entrepreneurial spirit, sustained tourism and development, as well as government spending that has helped mitigate potential economic stressors.

“California has a really innovative economy,” said Irena Asmundson, a research scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. “We have strengths and a lot of different sectors, it’s not just technology. ... And we continually try to invent the things that are going to make a difference in the future.”

She pointed out that California is home to the nation’s largest manufacturing hub as well as a huge agricultural sector, though it accounts for only a fraction of the state’s overall GDP — all points she said makes California’s advance in rankings “a very real possibility.”

She noted that when California’s economy surpassed the size of the U.K.'s in 2017, it required a strong and resilient California, but challenges in Britain played a more prominent role.

“The U.K. was a very similar situation, and the exchange rate moved a lot after Brexit,” Asmundson said, referring to Britain’s exit from the European Union in 2020. “It’s not as though this is all California innovation, it’s also partially those external factors.”

While Winkler mentions in his analysis that “Germany, of course, has been severely impacted by the war in Ukraine,” many experts say that aspect of the equation was heavily downplayed in the probability that California will surpass Germany.

“It is true that California’s GDP has grown slightly faster annually than Germany’s over the past decade,” Zeke said. “But what’s really dramatic recently is the deterioration of the euro versus the dollar.”

When could California move to No. 4?

Winkler said that some of Bloomberg’s “estimates suggest the state may have already caught Germany, with at least one forecast implying California is ahead by $72 billion when considering the state’s recent growth rate.”

Figures on GDP won’t be published until spring next year to confirm any projections, but most of the experts who spoke with The Times agreed it was likely to occur, if not this year, by the end of 2023.

“It’s likely to occur now because Germany is going to be growing a lot slower, it appears, than California will over the next year or two,” said Mark Schniepp, director of the California Economic Forecast, an economic consulting firm.

But leaders at the California Business Roundtable, a nonprofit that often criticizes the regulations imposed on state businesses, were not convinced the Golden State would usurp Germany in the rankings. In the group’s “fact check” of Bloomberg’s data, its analysts showed more conservative projections for 2023, in which the gap between California and Germany would further shrink but not flip.

What does being the fourth-largest economy mean for California?

Robert Lapsley, president of the California Business Roundtable, said a higher ranking for California is an indicator of “the health of the state as a whole,” though he doubted it would become a factor in most businesses’ decisions about moving or growing in California.

“It is an important point to be able to understand where our economy fits in from a global perspective, and to be able to try to understand what are the strengths of our different sectors, and then how can we continue to help them grow,” Lapsley said.

Cornelius, with the Milken Institute, said it may not factor directly into a company’s decisions, but it could slowly change how industries move forward.

“I think it means that we will have access to even more talent,” Cornelius said. “This will make California more marketable.”

As for continuing to drive manufacturing or green standards, Zeke said moving up in world rankings increases California’s power to do so.

“The bigger California is, ... the more likely companies will try to create a product that meets the California requirements,” Zeke said. “I think for being a center of trade, for being a place that attracts business, being big can be helpful.”

Schniepp said a new ranking for California most basically “puts things in perspective” about the size of California’s economy. In his mind, it’s “just a ranking,” he said, calling GDP “an elusive, ethereal” concept that isn’t relevant to the average Californian.

POBRE KARPOV EMPINÓ DEMASIADO EL CODO EN UNA CENA DE LA DUMA A LA SALIDA RESBALÓ EN LA NIEVE Y POR POCO SE DESGUARDAMILLA DESEO UNA PRONTA RECUPERACIÓN A ESTE IMBATIBLE GENIO DEL SHAXMAT AJEDRECISTA HEROE DE MI JUVENTUD

I LOVE AND HATE NETANYAHU A GREAT LEADER OF ISRAEL AND WISH GOOD LUCK TO HIM HEC IS A GREAT GLOBAL LEADER

 

DON HOWEVER NO SE CORTA UN PELO

 

Visperas de Todos los Santos buen tiempo y las máscaras de Halloween tras las cuales se esconde el pateta. Todo el mundo anda haciendo el tonto en bacanales y bailes de disfraces, vuelve el bacanal tras la pandemia, bajé al estanco a comprar tabaco y allí me encontré a don However que es de los que no se cortan un pelo y el cura de mi aldea don Xantipa alto huesudo la cara triste, palentino y algo pesetero. Ya frisa casi los ochenta pero de joven era un clérigo gallaspero, las mozas se acorralaban a los pies del confesionario y lo perseguían hasta la rectoral pidiendo no precisamente absoluciones sino la gracia de Dios. En España el poder siempre atrajo las faldas por eso entre la monarquía y la clerigalla se llevan al huerto lo más granado del elemento femenino.

 Solteras, casadas, viudas forman parte de su patrimonio sexual. Hubo obispos como el cardenal Mendoza que guardaba un verdadero harén en su palacio y de reyes ¿qué decir? porque allá van reyes do quieren reyes,,, y mujeres,

 A Felipe IV le daban tantas bascas eróticas que refieren sus biógrafos que padecía una especie de furor uterino a la inversa, llegando a procrear setenta hijos entre legítimos y bastardos. Alfonso XII donde vas triste de ti bebía los vientos por las coristas amargándole la vida a su mujer la reina austriaca María Cristina. 

Su hijo Alfonso XIII inventó el cine porno y siguiendo la tradición de la dinastía no daba paz a la mano. Por su lecho desfiló el gran puterío matritense, marquesas, señoras de la limpieza e incluso novicias de los más aristocráticos monasterios de Madrid.

 Sigue la racha; Juan Carlos I es hoy la comidilla de las redes y aunque actualmente no pueda con los calcaños y ande en el exilio, sus coimas se cuentan como las cartas de la baraja. 

Así que el bueno de don However no pudo resistir sus impulsos republicanos en el estanco al ver al cura de nuestra aldea cuyas correrías por los pueblos del concejo sentaron catedra pues preñó a muchas. Mismamente cuando voy al surtidor a llenar el depósito el que me sirve es Fabián.

─Super llenar

Fabian ríe para el cuello de la camisa y ni se inmuta.

─En este país nadie está libre de dudas. Se lleva aquello de que nadie puede decir este cura no es mi padre. Por eso abunda tanto hijo de puta.

Clava el mozo sus ojos burlones en mí para que me aplique el cuento.

Pues eso, mi amigo However al ver al arcipreste en el estanco le soltó una andanada:

─¿Cómo está el cura?

Xantipa que no es tardo de reflejos le soltó otra:

─Pues de pie como ve ves.

─¡Con ese monstruo que tenéis en el Vaticano¡¡¡

However quedó cortado ante la contundencia de su respuesta, recogió su cajetilla y se largó.

Silencio administrativo y procesal, el cura de mi aldea es un buen pájaro y listo como los ratones colorados.

Regresé a mi chabola en lo alto de la montaña y me asomé a la ventana para ver el paisaje. La cima del Fornax mostraba sus crestas peladas coronadas por molinos de viento.

 Aun no había nieve, aunque dicen que por los Santos la nieve en los altos y por San Andrés en los pies. Aquel verano de sequía traía de cabeza a los científicos. todos hablando del calentamiento terráqueo y del cambio climático.

 El Fornax formaba parte de su familia casi de tanto salir a observarlo por el ventanuco que da a la huerta del Niso. Casi invita a subir. Para él era una tentación, realizaría escapadas ascensionales cuando era mozo. Ya no pues le dolían las piernas. 

La cumbre coronada albergaba una ermita blanca a la que acudían los romeros el día de Santa Ana. Fiestas de prado. Tambor y gaita. Ahora me resigno a verla desde lejos remembrando el vino y la sidra que bebí en mi juventud, es el monte más alto de la Sierra del Viento en perenne coloquio con la cordillera que desciende hasta el mar horadando el paisaje de picachos y nemorosos valles. 

Era el paso antiguamente de peregrinos compostelanos.

Mirándole desde abajo le miro extasiado bañando mi vista con el verde de pinares que cubren las espaldas y costillares del Fornax. Fue un antiguo volcán.

 Ínterin, hago examen de conciencia aterido de punzantes recuerdos en los que estalla la melancolía y el arrepentimiento.

 Veo a Etsi encaramado en lo alto de la cúspide. Ella era una dulce Gioconda inglesa. Su sonriso sale en cada retrato que conservo de su persona. Me mira con sus ojos zarcos que envían a la vez dos mensajes: ven y aléjate. 

Todo está consumado, you are not wellcome. Podría tomar un avión de Ryan Air y plantarme en menos de una hora en su pueblo, mi hija vive cerca del tercer aeropuerto londinense. 

Expurgo mi archivo interior y ella sigue ahí intacta, inmarcesible por haberla amado valiño la pena vivir, i was a lucky man. Los dos años más felices de mi vida los pasé junto a ella.

 Un serafín de fuego vigilaba la garita de sus ojos. Tras el maná vino la sed. Todo lo eché por la borda.

 Mas, tiré para adelante, fui andarríos, correcaminos sin brújula devine en pícaro al igual que ese cura don Xantipa.

 Lancé una moneda al aire caras o culos, salieron cruces y vine a dar en la áspera Castilla madrasta de sus mejores hijos. Si España fue mi cuna, Inglaterra me hizo, Nueva York me deshizo y Asturias me rehízo. I lernt things the hard way, no quiero pensar en aquella Eduvigis que me dejo a la puerta de la iglesia. El rechazo marcó sin embargo otro camino

Y por él estoy aquí, inconstancias de la vida, misterios de la existencia. 

Hay que engañar. Eso forma parte de la idiosincrasia del pícaro. 

Desde entonces me asustan las bodas, los trajes de novia me parecen camisas de fuerza, yo soy libre, voy a mi aire. A ti también te dejé a las puertas de la iglesia Etsi, luego el destino se vengó conmigo.

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LAS GUERRAS LAS GANA SIEMPRE LA INFANTERIA LOS TANQUES RUSOS AVANZAN Y VENCEN LA FUERTE RESISTENCIA NNACIONA LISTA UCRANIA - IZVESIIA

 

El ejército de la Federación Rusa avanzó a lo largo de casi toda la línea de contacto en la RPD.

El jefe de la DPR Pushilin: las fuerzas aliadas avanzan a lo largo de casi toda la línea de contacto

 

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Las fuerzas aliadas avanzan a lo largo de prácticamente toda la línea de contacto en la República Popular de Donetsk (RPD). El miércoles 2 de noviembre, dijo el jefe de la región Denis Pushilin.

"Estos muchachos no retrocederán"

Los combatientes de la República de Donetsk no solo repelen los ataques enemigos, sino que también logran el éxito en el frente.

“En general, a lo largo de toda la línea de contacto, nuestros muchachos avanzan en casi todas partes, a pesar de que el enemigo está arrojando nuevas reservas”, dijo el jefe de la DPR en un artículo publicado. canal Telegram .

Añadió que los militantes de Ucrania no cuentan con grandes pérdidas de mano de obra.

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Según Pushilin, hay éxitos significativos en la dirección de Maryinsky: el ejército ruso ha tomado posiciones en Maryinka. En la dirección de Avdeevka, las fuerzas aliadas avanzan en dirección al asentamiento de Pervomaiskoye, hay batallas por Nevelskoye. También hay avances en las direcciones de Gorlovka y Ugledar.

El jefe de la DPR señaló que la dirección de Krasnolimansky sigue siendo la más difícil, ya que el enemigo no abandona los intentos de atacar las posiciones rusas; sin embargo, mediante esfuerzos conjuntos, incluso con el apoyo de la aviación y la artillería, el ejército ruso logra repeler estas ofensivas. intentos Al mismo tiempo, la parte ucraniana sufre grandes pérdidas de mano de obra.

Anteriormente, el 29 de octubre, el corresponsal de Izvestia, Denis Kulaga, informó que las tropas rusas repelieron un intento de los nacionalistas ucranianos cerca de Artemovsk, notando grandes pérdidas enemigas.

El mismo día, Denis Pushilin también afirmó que las tropas rusas avanzaban a lo largo de casi toda la línea de contacto. Las unidades del ejército ruso, según él, ocupan posiciones más ventajosas.

La operación especial de Rusia para proteger Donbass continúa. La decisión de celebrarlo se tomó en el contexto del empeoramiento de la situación en la región debido al aumento de los bombardeos por parte de las tropas ucranianas.

 ГОД ЖАБЫ. (Я созерцаю романскую столицу)

Энтони Парра

Израненный и напуганный улыбкой batrachian (жаба, которая преследует меня с толстым голосом и плоскостопием, китайским лицом и цыганским цветом лица), я прибегнул к дидаскалии романского искусства, чтобы поставить себя во главе врага и экстаза. в портиках славы и в легендарных капителях, карнизах и амбулаториях церквей моей страны жития Христа, его чудеса, а также горгульи с раскрытой пастью, где дракон, притаившийся в наши дни, очень значителен. Я сидел на спине несчастья, где объясняется животный и растительный мир, к облегчению моих усталых ягодиц, я устал размышлять. Добродетели и пороки, ангел и зверь пожимают друг другу руки в этих могучих скульптурных фризах, которые являются проповедями в камне. Триумфальная паранетика немого искусства двенадцатого века.

Мастер Матео был странствующим теологом, который объяснял евангелисты с помощью долота и долота людям, которые не умели читать. Войдем, например, в литургический сад Сан-Висенте-эль-Дьяконо, скит в моем уединенном городе, где я включаю кассету, и начинает играть гимн записи православной мессы, и как будто каменные цветы снова раскладывали листья, овощи. Мосарабский обряд был гораздо больше похож благодаря своему изобилию и чудесным гимнам на греческий, чем на римский.

 Под горами осталось несколько музарабских храмов, единственный редкий из них - храм Мелке в Толедо. Их уничтожили мавры-альмохады, которые в своем иконоборческом рвении не вели себя терпимо, в отличие от христиан, которых мы превратили в католические алтари и освятили старые мечети — теперь они хотят восстановить мечеть в Кордове в явно дружеском жесте, но я вижу в этом заявлении жажду мести, мало согласующуюся с диалогом цивилизаций и их предикатов - а этот в Сеговии был воздвигнут крещеными людьми, пришедшими из Хаэна в терминах древней Фиваиды, спасающейся от преследований халифов. . Я раскинулся над этими уединенными местами и весенними полями, на которые ступал в детстве.

 Есть, например, Тетрамофрос, изображения льва, орла, человека, быка, четырех элементов или четырех сторон света или, если хотите, четырех путей мифического аскетизма (очищающего, иллюстративного, любовного, объединяющего). ) и четыре стороны добродетели для союза с Богом: скорбь, отречение, смирение и присутствие Xto. в истории. Я тону в призрачном разговоре этих резных фигурок, столь красноречивых в их тишине. Это новый год, и нам придется изменить свою жизнь, вернуться к добродетели, повесить пороки. Вот сущности, присутствия и силы просветляющей кармы. Удобно иметь в виду эти соображения, потому что современный мир немного дряхлый. Статуи крыльца славы моего города говорят со мной паремиями. Все символы и афоризмы под сводчатой ​​аркой, возвышающейся на пике митры. Я вижу архангелов с обернутыми бумагой крыльями. Писцы пишут свои летописи.

 Наверняка есть мученица святая Екатерина, которая появляется с обнажённой грудью, и другая блаженная, которая ходит, неся голову в руках. Эти подобия подобны аналектам или литературным фрагментам, которые монахи изучали перед повечерием или перед великим безмолвием, когда в цистерцианских монастырях — здание представляет собой то, что осталось от старого бернарского монастыря — запрещалось говорить слово, пусть человек молчит и пусть Бог говорит с душой - изучать науки свободных искусств и ботанику с ее терапевтическими свойствами. Так, например, Атермидоро рекомендовал принимать меры предосторожности против зернистой и темной чечевицы, корня всех зол. Серпол или тимьян использовали против укусов змей, а чеснок был щитом от проклятий. Фенхель стимулирует кровь.

 Салат рекомендуется отцами Церкви для сохранения целомудрия. Подорожник хорош от головной боли, а лилия, которая остается свежей или увядает в тот момент, когда женщина прикасается к ней, помогает узнать, девушка она или не дева. Тимпаны Шартрского собора представляют собой трактат по ботанике. Там плющ, виноградная лоза, розовый куст, лавр, дуб или акант используются для выражения концепций герметической философии. Каждое растение обладает целебной силой или соответствует христианской добродетели. Таким образом папоротник со смирением. Ядовитая мандрагора с человеком. Тыква с гордостью и плодородием. Явор отождествляется с неверием избранного народа.

 Чертополох и крапива с тщеславием и силой соответственно. Шиповник или гелебор формирует зависть. Должно быть, поэтому эта живая изгородь в виде ложной ежевики так процветает во многих уголках испанских полей.

 Лишайник — одиночество, эндивий — голодание. Резеда, или ретама, невинность и триумфальное розовое мученичество. Полынь использовалась на протяжении всего Средневековья.

 THE YEAR OF THE TOAD. (I contemplate a Romanesque capital)

Anthony Parra

Letterwounded and terrified by the smile of the batrachian (a toad that chases me with a fat voice and flat feet, a Chinese face and a gypsy complexion) I have resorted to the didascalia of Romanesque art to put myself in charge of the enemy and ecstasy in the porticoes of glory and in the storied capitals, corbels and ambulatory of the churches of my country, lives of Christ, his miracles, and also gargoyles with open jaws where the dragon that lurks these days is very significant. I have sat on the back of the miseries where the animal and plant world is explained, to the relief of my tired buttocks, I am tired of speculating. Virtues and vices, the angel and the beast, shake hands in those powerful statuary friezes that are sermons in stone. Triumphal paranetics of silent art of the twelfth century.

Master Mateo was an itinerant theologian who explained the evangeliaries with a chisel and a gouge to a people who did not know how to read. Let us enter, for example, the liturgical garden of San Vicente el diacono, a hermitage in my solitary town, where I turn on the cassette and the hymnody of a recording of an Orthodox mass begins to play and it is as if the stone flowers were putting out leaves again. vegetables. The Mozarabic rite was much more similar, thanks to its exuberance and wonderful hymnody, to the Greek than to the Roman.

 Few Muzarabic temples remain below the mountains, the only rare one being that of Melque in Toledo. They were destroyed by the Almohad Moors who did not behave in their iconoclastic zeal in a tolerant manner, unlike the Christians who we transformed into Catholic altars and consecrated the old mosques – now they want to recover the one in Córdoba in an apparently friendly gesture, but I see in that claim a desire for revenge little in keeping with the dialogue of civilizations and their predicates- and this one in Segovia was erected by baptized people who came from Jaén in the terms of an ancient Thebaid fleeing from the persecution of the caliphs. I spread out over these solitudes and spring fields that I stepped on as a child.

 There is the Tetramofros, for example, effigies of a lion, an eagle, a man, an ox, the four elements or the four cardinal points or, if you like, the four paths of mythical asceticism (purifying, illative, amative, unitive) and the four arms of virtue for union. with God: tribulation, abnegation, humility and presence of Xto. in the history. I drown in the ghostly colloquy of these carvings so eloquent within their silence. It's a new year and we will have to change our lives, return to virtue, hang vices. Here are the essences, presences and powers of illuminative karma. It is convenient to keep these considerations in mind because the world today is a bit decrepit. The statues of the porch of glory of my town speak to me in paremias. Everything is symbols and aphorisms under the vaulted arch rising to the peak of a mitre. I see the thuriferous archangels with papered wings. The scribes write their annals.

 There is surely a martyr St. Catherine who appears with her breasts exposed and another blessed who walks carrying his head in her hands. These semblances are like analects or literary fragments that the monks studied before Compline or before the great silence when in the Cistercian monasteries – the building is what remains of an old Bernard monastery – it was forbidden to speak a word, let man be silent and let God speak to the soul- to learn the science of the liberal arts and botany with its therapeutic properties. Thus, for example, Atermidoro recommended taking precautions against grainy and dark lentils, the root of all evils. Serpol or thyme was used against snake bites and garlic was a shield against curses. Fennel stimulates the blood.

 Lettuce is recommended by the fathers of the Church to keep chastity. The plantain is good for a headache and the lily that stays fresh or turns wither the moment a woman touches it is good to know if she is a girl or not a maiden. The tympanums of Chartres Cathedral are a treatise on botany. There the ivy, the vine, the rosebush, the laurel, the oak or the acanthus are used to express concepts of the hermetic philosophy. Each plant has a healing power or corresponds to a Christian virtue. Thus the fern with humility. The poisonous mandrake with man. The gourd with pride and fertility. The sycamore is identified with the disbelief of the chosen people.

 The thistle and the nettle with vanity and strength respectively. The rosehip or helebore shapes envy. That must be why this hedge flourishes so much in the form of a false bramble in so many corners of the fields of Spain.

 The lichen is loneliness and endive is fasting. The reseda or retama innocence and the triumphant rose martyrdom. Mugwort was used throughout the Middle Ages.

 L'ANNÉE DU CRAPAUD. (Je contemple un chapiteau roman)

Antoine Parra

Blessé aux lettres et terrifié par le sourire du batracien (un crapaud qui me poursuit avec une grosse voix et des pieds plats, un visage chinois et un teint gitan) j'ai eu recours à la didascalie de l'art roman pour me mettre en charge de l'ennemi et de l'extase dans les portiques de gloire et dans les chapiteaux étagés, corbeaux et déambulatoires des églises de mon pays, des vies du Christ, ses miracles, et aussi des gargouilles à gueule ouverte où le dragon qui rôde de nos jours est très significatif. Je me suis assise sur le dos des misères où s'explique le monde animal et végétal, au soulagement de mes fesses fatiguées, j'en ai marre de spéculer. Les vertus et les vices, l'ange et la bête, se serrent la main dans ces puissantes frises statuaires qui sont des sermons de pierre. Paranétique triomphale de l'art muet du XIIe siècle.

Maître Mateo était un théologien itinérant qui expliquait les évangéliaires avec un ciseau et une gouge à un peuple qui ne savait pas lire. Entrons, par exemple, dans le jardin liturgique de San Vicente el diacono, un ermitage dans ma ville solitaire, où j'allume la cassette et l'hymnodie d'un enregistrement d'une messe orthodoxe commence à jouer et c'est comme si la pierre fleurissait mettaient à nouveau des feuilles, des légumes. Le rite mozarabe ressemblait beaucoup plus, par son exubérance et sa merveilleuse hymnodie, au grec qu'au romain.

 Peu de temples muzarabes subsistent sous les montagnes, le seul rare étant celui de Melque à Tolède. Ils ont été détruits par les Maures almohades qui ne se sont pas comportés dans leur zèle iconoclaste de manière tolérante, contrairement aux chrétiens que nous avons transformés en autels catholiques et consacrés les anciennes mosquées - maintenant ils veulent récupérer celle de Cordoue dans un geste apparemment amical, mais je vois dans cette revendication un désir de vengeance peu conforme au dialogue des civilisations et de leurs prédicats - et celui de Ségovie a été érigé par des baptisés venus de Jaén dans les termes d'une ancienne Thébaïde fuyant la persécution des califes . Je me suis étalé sur ces solitudes et ces champs de printemps que j'ai foulés enfant.

 Il y a les Tetramofros, par exemple, les effigies d'un lion, d'un aigle, d'un homme, d'un boeuf, les quatre éléments ou les quatre points cardinaux ou, si l'on veut, les quatre voies de l'ascèse mythique (purificatrice, illative, amative, unitive ) et les quatre bras de la vertu pour l'union avec Dieu : tribulation, abnégation, humilité et présence de Xto. dans l'histoire. Je me noie dans le colloque fantomatique de ces gravures si éloquentes dans leur silence. C'est une nouvelle année et il va falloir changer de vie, revenir à la vertu, accrocher les vices. Voici les essences, les présences et les pouvoirs du karma illuminatif. Il convient de garder ces considérations à l'esprit car le monde d'aujourd'hui est un peu décrépit. Les statues du porche de gloire de ma ville me parlent en paremias. Tout n'est que symboles et aphorismes sous la voûte s'élevant au sommet d'une mitre. Je vois les archanges thurifères aux ailes tapissées. Les scribes écrivent leurs annales.

 Il y a sûrement une sainte Catherine martyre qui apparaît les seins découverts et une autre bienheureuse qui marche en portant sa tête dans ses mains. Ces semblants sont comme des analectes ou des fragments littéraires que les moines étudiaient avant Complies ou avant le grand silence quand dans les monastères cisterciens – le bâtiment est ce qui reste d'un ancien monastère bernard – il était interdit de dire un mot, que l'homme se taise et laisse Dieu parle à l'âme - pour apprendre la science des arts libéraux et la botanique avec ses propriétés thérapeutiques. Ainsi, par exemple, Atermidoro recommandait de prendre des précautions contre les lentilles granuleuses et noires, racine de tous les maux. Serpol ou thym était utilisé contre les morsures de serpent et l'ail était un bouclier contre les malédictions. Le fenouil stimule le sang.

 La laitue est recommandée par les pères de l'Église pour garder la chasteté. Le plantain est bon pour les maux de tête et le lys qui reste frais ou se flétrit au moment où une femme le touche, il est bon de savoir si c'est une fille ou non une jeune fille. Les tympans de la cathédrale de Chartres sont un traité de botanique. Là le lierre, la vigne, le rosier, le laurier, le chêne ou l'acanthe sont utilisés pour exprimer des concepts de la philosophie hermétique. Chaque plante a un pouvoir de guérison ou correspond à une vertu chrétienne. Ainsi la fougère avec humilité. La mandragore venimeuse avec l'homme. La gourde avec fierté et fertilité. Le sycomore est identifié à l'incrédulité du peuple élu.

 Le chardon et l'ortie avec vanité et force respectivement. L'églantier ou hélébore façonne l'envie. C'est sans doute pour cela que cette haie fleurit tant sous la forme d'une fausse ronce dans tant de coins des champs d'Espagne.

 Le lichen est la solitude et l'endive est le jeûne. L'innocence reseda ou retama et le martyre rose triomphant. L'armoise a été utilisée tout au long du Moyen Âge.