Today, to lighten a little the enormous emotional burden that the Valencian tragedy has placed on all of usI will remove the curtain of tears and look at other horizons, more banal and personal. A few months ago I changed my office location. Before, he was watched over, from a decadent balcony, without sad plants, by a hippie marquise. Today, the human closest to me is a particular photographer who continues to work in analog format. His studio is next to my usual crime scene, which is where I skin from left to right with my little fingers on the keyboard. You will understand that my working conditions have considerably improved.
Don’t worry, I won’t punish you with personal whips anymore. I tell you now that, in the Plaza de Cuba in Seville, exactly on the corner of Juan Sebastián Elcano and the San Telmo bridge, there is an advertisement on a digital screen which says something like, if we dreamed of the ideal city, that it would be Madrid. My surprised face when I saw it was a poem. In a city like Sevillein one of the busiest and most socially regarded spaces, we are told that Madrid is better than ours. Thank you, Mr. Mayor! This way of promoting Sevillianism is very original, we didn’t know it, but tourists will surely like to know that, even if they have come to visit Seville, the city they cannot miss is Madrid.
I continued walking quickly and confidently, because at this point you can hardly be surprised. With this statement, it makes sense that some people think I am approaching old age, but that is not the case. I just turned fifty and I feel wonderful and very young. This is also what I felt last Saturday. singer Rafa Sánchezof the Union. He said he would never be as young as he is today, it’s true! I looked at him for a long time while he danced, as if we were the protagonists in a film. This charismatic singer, at sixty-three years old, is like a wild boar. He describes his glorious stages with the same naturalness as his infernal ones, aware of his power of seduction and his need to live to the limit. “I have the addiction gene in my veins,” without further ado.
Rafa also said that his generation was privileged, something we’ve heard many times recently, because they truly knew freedom. He defined the current situation as “a sneaky war.” This polarization that we are experiencing affects all areas too much of our lives. In the world of culture, this has always been the case, make no mistake. In recent decades, social mavericks have made it their own, but it is simple to understand it only as a throwing weapon, it is like blunting human sensitivity in a single drawer. I don’t join this trend. I like well-edited books (that’s so rare these days!), blue porcelain and architectural drawings, what does that have to do with political ideology?
Now I was going to tell you some notes that Wolfgang made in his diary. (I mean Mozart, in case anyone is distracted), but I’m running out of paper, which is a fancy way of saying I’m tired of working for today. My editor says it’s better to be intense than long. Sometimes I think he says this to console me for the intensity of my nature, but other times I think he really appreciates my capacity for synthesis. In any case, I’m finishing my score for today. Next week I’ll be more critical, because I’ve been gentle here. Fortunately, I am a woman and can count on our historical reputation for being sensitive and temperamental. Besides, so many confessions exhaust me, I need a glass of chamomile in the sun. Let’s see if the mayor joins us and discuss the announcement.
