Brassens convinced us in a song that the Mass would be worthless to us without the archaic and beautiful Latin. There had to be something good coming from the church, even from the most agnostic. She always tried to hide her pious appearances. Now that it is going through a period of ruin after being filled with wealth and experiencing a frightening desertion of community members, its business becomes even more complicated when the sinister and endless pedophiles come to light. The devil was always there, but conveniently hidden. The heads of the hut did not punish their sinners. When the scandal became too big, they limited themselves to changing parishes. I imagine this in the name of the Most High.
Among the carrion news on television, I heard some aberrations committed by members of the religious caste. And everything has something between Dadaism and the grotesque. It turns out that one of Don Benito's priests and the friend with whom he lived at the headquarters had devoted themselves to trafficking Viagra and other aphrodisiac substances that brought pleasure to the weakened bodies of customers. They also inform us that a priest was arrested for stealing an invalid's wheelchair. This level of crime is very heinous. And tragicomic. Oh, how are some of God's servants!
And that's enough for television. I start reading a book, that ancient and constant pleasure that most of today's children seem to despise. They don't know what they're losing. I discovered, unfortunately late, but with great joy, two books that are as funny as they are intelligent. Its author is the brilliant, original and unpredictable Ignacio Peyró. They are entitled “We have eaten and drunk and you will settle down”. This text is elegant, hypnotic, secretly lyrical, humorous, describes places, sensations and moods, cultured and joyful. In the insurmountable clutter of my overcrowded library, I have managed to always have certain books within easy reach on my bedside table. I can open them to any page when I suffer from insomnia. They are “The Gray Notebook” by Josep Pla and “Histories of London, of New York, of Rome, of Calcio” written by my friend Enric González. Peyró connects these pearls.
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