Barcelona August 7th, 2013 12:13am
Spent first part of the day yesterday going over parts of the script with LLuis-Anton. This translating business is very interesting. as...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20171 min read
Barcelona August 7th, 2013 5:11am
So...Walking down the street in a working-class neighborhood in a city thousands of miles, several time zones, and dozens of languages...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20171 min read
Barcelona August 5th, 2013 2:58pm
See, I told you there was a George Orwell Plaza in Barcelona!
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20173 min read
Barcelona, August 5th, 2013 2:54pm
Another interesting day! I'm guessing Alan Warren thought we were going to talk for a bit, maybe get a bite together. Nine hours later,...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20172 min read
Barcelona August 4th, 2013 11:46am
The other day, when I was heading to the theatre for the reading of 1984, my host, Lluis-Anton, gave me his metro pass. "That's okay," I...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20172 min read
Barcelona August 4th, 2013 11:04pm
Today I am going to meet with Alan Warren, who is one of the people who runs Porta de la Historia: "Porta de la Historia is a...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20172 min read
Barcelona, August 4th 2013 1:55am
"Plaza of the Unknown Militiaman." So back when the workers rose up in Barcelona to save their country from the fascist rebels,...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20171 min read
Barcelona August 4th, 2013
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pere_Coromines
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20171 min read
Barcelona August 3rd, 2013 9:16am
Well, that was amazing. I can honestly say that was by far the best walking tour I've ever been on. What I thought was going to be a...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20171 min read
Barcelona August 2nd, 2013 11:23pm
This morning I'm going on an Orwell walking tour of Barcelona! The same person who introduced me Miquel Berga, the Orwell scholar, also...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20171 min read
Barcelona August 2nd, 2013 1:20 pm
And here we all are: the cast of the reading at Almeria Theatre. Next to me is Lluís-Anton, the novelist/playwright, filmmaker who...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20171 min read
Barcelona August 2nd, 2013 7:15am
Headin' over to the Almeria Theatre for the reading after our last meeting bout the final line in the script and book. Winston finally...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20171 min read
Barcelona - August 2nd, 2013: 1:10 pm
Look! It's me talking to the cast of the Catalan reading at Almeria Theatre!
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20171 min read
Barcelona - August 2nd, 2013: 1:10pm
Anyone who knows me at all knows that the idea of me being speechless is as unrealistic as powdered water. But sitting in a theatre in...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20172 min read
Barcelona - August 1st, 2013: 8:30 pm
Today is the reading of the first draft of the Catalan translation of 1984! So far things have been going very well, and Lluís-Anton has...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20171 min read
Barcelona - July 31st, 2013 later:11:47 pm
Before this trip I had more than one man tell me how beautiful the women in Barcelona are. (For some reason these were mostly gay men,...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20171 min read
Barcelona - July 31st 2013 5:37 am
There's this moment - after the meeting with the Orwell scholar who's just told you how moving he finds your work, and while you're...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20172 min read
Barcelona - July 28th, 1:20 pm
You don't know this - and why would you - but sometimes I talk in my sleep. It was an intermittent annoyance to my family growing up, and...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 28, 20171 min read
Barcelona 2013
So, first I had to start an "Indiegogo" campaign to raise money to go Barcelona and work on the translation of "1984" into Catalan......
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jun 12, 20171 min read
Melbourne - other days
Oct. 22, 23, 24 2006 Oh, and this is the sense of humor they have in Australia. And who would eat at a place called: So anyway, I figured...
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