Vic, Catalonia. The question seems simple: should Catalonia be independent? But as the British found out with their own referendum, supplementary questions stick together like cranberries in muesli while any particular answer may long remain undiscovered, like the last teaspoon in the washing-up. So the difficulty in reading El Punt Avui on the subject is not so much that it is in Catalan (a beautiful but less familiar language) as that a foreigner comes into the narrative in mid-stream. It is like trying to pick up the threads of Breaking Bad halfway through series three.The story so far is that Artur Mas, the Catalan leader, has called a referendum for 9 November despite the courts declaring that no consultative referendum could lawfully be held. It is all a question of how you conceive