Julia and Julie were visiting Barcelona for the first time<\/p>\n
Their flight was delayed so they checked in late at their hotel and although they were both itching to explore the great city they restricted themselves to a drink at a nearby bar<\/p>\n
After sleeping soundly both women made an early start the following day and within the first fifteen minutes found a small flea market<\/p>\n
Julia purchased two metal dishes with old English pennies attached to them<\/p>\n
Julie purchased a first edition of Evelyn Waugh\u2019s Men at Arms<\/p>\n
The trapped coins dated from 1926 and 1962<\/p>\n
Whereas the first edition had been published in 1952<\/p>\n
26 62 2x 26 = 52<\/p>\n
Pedro the stallholder thought about the mathematics of Julia and Julie\u2019s purchases but was not surprised when the women failed to notice the symmetry<\/p>\n
What they did comment on was how surprising it was to find two items so English in their character in a market in Barcelona<\/p>\n
Pedro noted that he had once been in Ludlow and had found a book of poetry by Lorca in the towns market<\/p>\n
The book had been published in 1962<\/p>\n
36 years after the poet died<\/p>\n
Lorca = Ludlow<\/p>\n
Waugh = Barcelona<\/p>\n
Anthony Beavis<\/p>\n
Pedro who was born in 1962 thought that Julia looked like Salvador Dali’s wife Gala although less severe<\/p>\n
He produced a white shirt from a pink box and asked Julia to put it on but to bare her left breast<\/p>\n
Her salary for this theatre would be a loaf of pink bread and a bracelet in the shape of a snake<\/p>\n
As she was posing Julia noticed a man with short dark hair looking at the reflection of the back of his head in a large mirror<\/p>\n
She looked for her own reflection in the self-same mirror but could not see her likeness<\/p>\n
Julie said that only vampires lacked reflections and was assured by her friend that she not a vampire<\/p>\n
There are no vampires in Barcelona<\/p>\n
Julia and Julie were wandering slowly through the Park Guell in the strong July sunshine<\/p>\n
The park had been built between 1900 and 1914<\/p>\n
1+9+1+4 =15<\/p>\n
It had been opened in 1926<\/p>\n
1+9=10<\/p>\n
Julie was wearing a white tee shirt with a pink photograph of Antoni Gaudi printed on it<\/p>\n
Julia was wearing the shirt that Pedro had given her although her left breast was now covered<\/p>\n
Evelyn Waugh was wearing a sober dark suit which was not suitable for the heat of the city<\/p>\n
Pedro\u2019s daughter Ana had given Julie a film poster<\/p>\n
It was for a 1970s movie called Vampiri a Venezia<\/em><\/p>\n In common with Julia<\/p>\n Ana did not exhibit a reflection within any of the mirrors that could be found in the market<\/p>\n Pedro blamed the mirrors which he said were cheap imports<\/p>\n There are no vampires in Barcelona<\/p>\n But then again not all vampires are Spanish<\/p>\n Evelyn Waugh considered this as he walked with Julia and Julie<\/p>\n But did not share his thoughts with either of the women<\/p>\n He knew that Ana had been bitten when taking a bath<\/p>\n In Venice<\/p>\n Her Italian sister had bitten her<\/p>\n She had given Julie the gift as a warning<\/p>\n Do not bathe with your friend<\/i><\/p>\n Always shower<\/em><\/p>\n I trusted my Italian sister <\/i><\/p>\n And I became infected <\/i><\/p>\n Bathe alone <\/i><\/p>\n Lock the door <\/i><\/p>\n Take all precautions <\/i><\/p>\n Julie was oblivious to Ana\u2019s warning and planned to share a bath with Julia when they returned to the hotel<\/p>\n There are no vampires in Barcelona<\/p>\n Evelyn Waugh was aware of Ana\u2019s warning but ghosts have no voice<\/p>\n After lunch Julia and Julie visited the Sagrada Familia<\/p>\n Both women were worried that the AVE high speed trains that passed through a nearby tunnel were having a detrimental effect on the stability of the Sagrada Familia<\/p>\n But they were reassured by a pink engineer who noted that all precautions had been considered<\/p>\n Evelyn Waugh had never travelled on a high speed train so he was unable comment<\/p>\n At the time of his death in 1966 the conception of high speed trains such as AVE TGV and ICEs were still on the drawing board<\/p>\n Antoni Gaudi died in 1926<\/p>\n Marilyn Monroe was born in 1926<\/p>\n Marilyn Monroe died in 1962<\/p>\n Antoni Gaudi never met Marilyn Monroe<\/p>\n 26 62 2x 26 = 52<\/p>\n Antoni Gaudi was born on the 25th<\/sup> of June 1852<\/p>\n Evelyn Waugh was 62 when he died from heart failure<\/p>\n Evelyn Waugh\u2019s first wife was also called Evelyn and for a while the couple were known as He Evelyn and She Evelyn<\/i><\/p>\n People often confused Julia and Julie<\/p>\n Who had been born on the same day twenty-six miles apart<\/p>\n To the same mother<\/p>\n Complications had set in after the first baby arrived and the women’s mother had been driven twenty-six miles to another more specialised hospital<\/p>\n This had never happened before<\/p>\n But both babies survived although Julia required a number of blood tranfusions<\/p>\n A paper was later written by Doctor Richard Lower who delivered both girls<\/p>\n As the circumstances of their birth had gathered a great deal of attention in medical circles<\/p>\n Julia and Julie spent longer in the Sagrada Familia than they had planned to do<\/p>\n The cathedral took their breath away as it had done when they first visited Barcelona on a school trip<\/p>\n Whilst exploring they met a young man called Anthony Beavis who gave them a first edition of Aldous Huxley’s novel Eyeless in Gaza and urged them to read it<\/p>\n Aldous Huxley’s final novel was called Island and was published in 1962<\/p>\n On the 22nd<\/sup> of November 1963 three famous men died<\/p>\n Aldous Huxley<\/p>\n C S Lewis<\/p>\n And JFK<\/p>\n 22+11+63 = 96 \/2 = 48\/2 =24 (2+4 =6)<\/p>\n It was a perfect day <\/i><\/p>\n 6=1×6<\/i><\/p>\n 6=2×3<\/i><\/p>\n 6=3×2<\/i><\/p>\n 6=6×1<\/i><\/p>\n 1+2+3=6<\/i><\/p>\n Anthony said that these figures laid waste to the conspiracy theories that had followed the death of JFK<\/p>\n He kept Julia and kept Julie company as they explored the\u00a0Sagrada Familia<\/p>\n Evelyn Waugh was glad of the young man\u2019s company as his heavy clothing had caused him to become exhausted in the hot Barcelona sun<\/p>\n He wished that he had worn a lighter suit when attending church on that fateful Easter Sunday in 1966<\/p>\n It was a well-known fact in Heaven that you travelled into eternity wearing your final set of clothes<\/p>\n And 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