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Asterix and Obelix – characters created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. Source: Teresa Grau Ros / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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The Most Famous Celts in the World

The Adventures of Asterix and Obelix
Maciej Świetlik
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Maciej Świetlik:
an anthropologist without a diploma, a fan of wandering aimlessly and horseback riding without a saddle. He celebrates the Persian New Year. He feels best by the fire, drinking the occasional glass of nice wine. 

Two belligerent and wine-loving Gallic villagers achieved something that real Celts could not – they conquered the entire world. The comic book series created by René Goscinny is a treasure trove of information about both history and the present.

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The tiny yet valiant Asterix and his inseparable burly companion Obelix form a characteristic type of pair known since the beginnings of literature. A duo comprising a usually inexpressive protagonist symbolizing civilization and a noisy, uncouth partner appears already in the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, where the eponymous hero travels alongside the half-animal Enkidu. We encounter a similar pattern in the case of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, or Robinson Crusoe and Friday. Asterix,

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Maciej Świetlik:
an anthropologist without a diploma, a fan of wandering aimlessly and horseback riding without a saddle. He celebrates the Persian New Year. He feels best by the fire, drinking the occasional glass of nice wine. 
Translation: Grzegorz Czemiel
Publish date: 18.03.2022

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Maciej Świetlik:
an anthropologist without a diploma, a fan of wandering aimlessly and horseback riding without a saddle. He celebrates the Persian New Year. He feels best by the fire, drinking the occasional glass of nice wine. 

There are no experts or losers here, and instead of competition there’s a spirit of cooperation and a feeling of being submerged in the poetic ocean of language.

Ouscrapo is a game conceived by the French artist Bertrand Boulanger, based on a normal Scrabble set. The players, or jargonauts, create fictional words with the letters they’ve drawn, and then create definitions for these words.

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