I take this title from the article in the book of poems and scattered notesThe police will be in force (Documenta, 2025) by the eminent Enric Casasses, because the author's poetic prose is an invitation to look at life in general, and life in Catalan in particular, with the lack of inhibition of someone who sees it clearly and knows how to say it, which is what one must adopt to go out into the world when hysteria triumphs.
The spokesperson for Vox in the Balearic Parliament, a party that has just agreed on the budget with the Popular Party, considers that Catalan is not the proper language of the Balearic Islands, and contrasts it with the "Mallorcan language, which we all know is older than Catalan", remarkable statement It's a shame it arrived late and didn't arrive in time to enrich the PP's argument against Catalan in the EU, in what would have been a natural extension of the great teamwork being carried out by both parties.
Now it's urgent for historiography to address an unsolved enigma that has the world agape: the varieties of Catalan spoken in the Islands (as well as those in Valencia) arrived in both territories long before the first settlers from Catalonia. The Middle Ages are still a treasure trove of surprises.
At home, we used to resolve this with a "donkey seeds don't reach the sky," and although donkey bellows still don't reach the sky, they reach public opinion with brazen and provocative forms of communication, and culture must point this out, so that the aforementioned bellows are recorded.
