Inscriptions

To Director Walter Heil of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor last week came two high-school principals, two San Francisco Spanish bluebloods and two priests, in that order, to complain about an exhibition of Goya paintings and etchings which has been on view at the museum for a month. Result was that the Spanish inscriptions under six pictures were covered for the remaining fortnight of the show. Sample translations from the brutal series of Goya aquatints entitled Los Caprichos:

Bien tirada est`a (It Must Fit Exactly) : "A prostitute is drawing on her stocking in order to show off her beautiful leg. There's nothing lower than the gutter."

Las rinde er sueno (Sleep Overcomes Them): "The priests are accustomed to enter convents at night and there indulge in every relaxation until sleep overcomes them."

Si quebro el caniaro (The Pitcher Got Broken): "There are mothers who beat the behind of their children with slippers because a pitcher got broken, and then they do not punish them for more serious offenses."

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