GR translation: She missed the International Brigades

[Michael Lee Bailey]

In addition to that parade, it might refer to a friendly culture overall?

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM, Mike Jing <[gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com](mailto:On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM, Mike Jing <<a href=)> wrote:

> I see. So "the flowers, children, kisses, and many tongues of Barcelona"
> must be referring to the farewell parade held for the volunteers
> in Barcelona on November 15, 1938.
>
> Thanks, Mike.
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> It means she wasn't involved with the International Brigades, but was a
>> guerilla in the already fascist occupied mountains of Asturia, the IB
>> being based in republican areas to the south.
>>
>> On 29/08/2025 07:43, Mike Jing wrote:
>> > V605.25-38, P616.9-22 Manuela doesn’t feel obliged to join in. Valencia
>> > was one of the last cities to fall to Franco. She herself is really from
>> > the Asturias, which knew him first, felt his cruelty two years before the
>> > civil war even began for the rest of Spain. She watches Marvy’s face as
>> he
>> > pays Monika, watches him in this primal American act, paying, more deeply
>> > himself than when coming, or asleep, or maybe even dying. Marvy isn’t her
>> > first, but almost her first, American. The clientele here at Putzi’s is
>> > mostly British. During the War—how many camps and cities since her
>> capture
>> > in ’38?—it was German. She missed the International Brigades, shut away
>> up
>> > in her cold green mountains and fighting hit-and-run long after the
>> > Fascists had occupied all the north—missed the flowers, children, kisses,
>> > and many tongues of Barcelona, of Valencia where she’s never been,
>> > Valencia, this evening’s home. . . . Ya salimos de España. . . . Pa’
>> luchar
>> > en otros frentes, ay, Manuela, ay, Manuela. . . .
>> >
>> > What does "missed" mean here? Was she actually a guerrilla, "shut away up
>> > in her cold green mountains and fighting hit-and-run long after the
>> > Fascists had occupied all the north?"
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