23 dic 2013
Inauguration of the Madhouse of Barcelona in 1.902
The inauguration of the Manicomio General (General Madhouse) of Barcelona in 1.902 signalled also the 410º anniversary of the destruction of the Americas, fête organized by the king Alfonso XIII, monarch that erected the psychiatric hospital with his own hands, with the assistance of 100 Hottentot bricklayers.
Assorted aristocrats fell on the fiesta in parachute, all smoking in Catalan, because the language in which people smoke shifts drastically according to the zone, so you can smoke in English, or in Italian, Portuguese, etc, etc.
Erudite people smoke in many languages, for example I knew a proctologist who smoked in 25 tongues.
The installations of the madhouse were visited by the distinguished clientele, who were regaled with chocolate con churros and dulcemembriyo in sandwich (aka sánguche), along with small cups of alcoholes (vodka, anisette, caña Legui, Pernod, absinthe, aguarrás).
The 17th Duke of Alba was especially animated, due the spirituous beverages ingested, and danced a fast and erotic rhythm called the Sarabande with the patients of the mental institution, with increasingly vigorous movements that turned gradually into a delirious and massive helter skelter or rifirrafe, during which the insane population of the hospital almost destroyed a pavilion in its entirety.
After the crackpots were sent to their respective cages, the visitors continued admiring the rococó (or rocoqueaux) disposition of fountains, patios and gardens of the madhouse, patios that were equipped with amphores étrusques with pipes and opium at every meander of their paved paths, devised in order to provide some relaxation and vice to psychiatrists and guests during the lunch time.
Especially transgressive, eliciting notorious "oooh"s and "aaah"s were the statues of naked nereids with clitorises like bananas and protuberantly fuckable tits, which were especially regarded and appreciated by the obscene.
The baronet and rhapsodist Petronilo Garchante was also there, where he composed an encomiastic ode dedicated to the small erectile organ of the vulva, ode that wasn't recited because the Primate of the Archdiocese of Tarragona prohibited it.
The madhouse was demolished in 1.941 by express order of Franciso Franco, and all the insane were relocated to churches where they were exorcized.
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