I’m really sorry to hear this, Donnie. You’re brilliant and hard working and deserve to be employed and compensated in kind.

Not to mention the increased grade grubbing the grade book produces.

Ready your inbox for early drafts in, say, October or November.

🤣 “blessing.” Stay tuned, more coming.

Even the footnotes of _The Structure of Spanish History_ are chock full of insanity...

... Gracias a ellos, cada uno de esos grupos desempeñó su peculiar cometido: el cristiano dominaba y combatía, el mudéjar edificaba castillos y viviendas, el judío administraba las finanzas y hacía todo lo demás […]”

"Durante unos cuatrocientos años […] en los reinos cristianos de la Península habían convivido bastante en paz cristianos, mudéjares y judíos, en virtud de un sistema de tolerancia, en su raíz fundado en preceptos islámicos. ...

To Malkiel I say, "Can he not, though?"

“To preserve purity of caste (a concern, moreover, of Jewish origin), the Spaniard rejected the cultivation of all forms of culture.”⁠

“From [the fifteenth century] on, [Christians] had already absorbed the Oriental feeling that nationality and religious faith are inseparable. In this the Spain of today bears a closer resemblance to Israel and the Muslim countries than to any of the Western nations.”⁠

“If the anti-semitic ‘Old Christians’ of the past ... could have been convinced that the absurdly stupid notion of ‘purity of blood’ really amounted to a Hispano-Catholic adaptation of a Jewish tradition, ... that particular folly ... would have been much less damaging to Spanish culture.”⁠

“Although Hispanism is enjoying a steady development in the United States and Europe, in Spain I have not found a single person capable of explaining to the rest of Europe anything it does not already know about its own culture.”

“If there had been some centauric way of coupling the carburetor of a motor with the circulation of his own blood, the Spaniard could have been interested in mechanical inventions."