Outside the Campoamor theater, all conversations began with the weather. Of course poets are because they play with lightning. As soon as she got up to the lectern, Ana Blandiana blurted out: “As always when I receive an award, my first thought was for Plato.” And their parents? The same thing happened to Ignatieff with Shakespeare: “I hear Hamlet exclaim: ‘If we all had what we deserved, who would escape the whipping?'” It was a day of many questions. «Can poetry save the world?» «When will the time come to harvest dreams?» “Why is it raining if you can’t see that much cloud?” “Mr. Barbón, what do you think of the revelations about Errejón?” “But didn’t Goebbels have a doctorate in philosophy?” “And hadn’t Dr. Mengele taken the Hippocratic Oath?” “Dad, who are all these people?” Ignatieff said: “I’m one of those foxes who always wanted to be a hedgehog.” Before, at the door of Reconquista, umbrellas were opened and necks were stretched, in an exercise that is now an Oviedo sport, with its risks. A lady fainted after many hours in the front row. They had to knock her down. “The ‘legs up’, oh,” indicated a man, as if directing a play. Not far away, a woman shouted: “Víctor Manuel, handsome!” He did not comment on Ana Belén, who was with him. Neither did her husband, imperturbable. Two men had fun pointing out the windows and balconies where there were police officers, celebrating the security. The TVE journalists entertained themselves with the applause: “Carolina Marín is the one who has won the most.” And five minutes later: “No, it’s Serrat.” The wait shook the neurons, invoked surprise. “Avilés is like Palencia.” “And Valladolid is the opposite.” “Excellence is indisputable.” The Magnum photographers posed very well, inside and outside the theater. A woman explained on RNE that she was delighted because she had seen her third favorite person in the world: Luis García Montero. The first was Serrat, that’s why he had come from Barcelona. Nearby, a Sevillian woman complained about the cold and talked a lot: «Well, the one I love is Satrapi. What is her name, Marianne? And already at the ceremony, Marjane made herself heard: «Among what biologists call authentic animals, that is, mammals, the man is the only one who kills his female. And we qualify that act as bestial, since no other beast, outside of us, commits it. That’s humanity.” Since at the cocktail party even the poets talked about Errejón, it was difficult not to think about him, like when a summer song sticks deep in your hippocampus. The King dedicated his speech to the concept of person. “History warns us of the serious consequences of deviating from that path,” he said. And he went to Thoreau: “Every man has the task of making his life worthy, down to its smallest details.” Oh. Can poetry save the world? And the men?Related News PRINCESS OF ASTURIAS PRIZE FOR STANDARD LETTERS No Ana Blandiana: “Robots will never understand suffering” Blandiana reminded the prisoners that, in Romania, they wrote verses in prison and passed them from cell to cell thanks to Morse code: that is what separates us from robots, he insisted. She was the only winner who quoted a Spaniard, Unamuno: “Spain hurts me.” But she was hurt by Romania, the world, the universe. Ignatieff went for Isaiah Berlin: “The fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows only one important thing.” And Satrapi chose Saadi, an Iranian poet from the 13th century: “You who are indifferent to others / do not deserve to be called human.” At the Reconquista, Serrat assured that he would not sing, but he sang. Already at the press conference on Tuesday he had announced that he had only retired from the stage, not from art. He chose ‘Those Little Things’ and was accompanied by a viola. His speech was also short, three minutes: “I want to leave the memory of a good, fair and grateful man.” Next to nothing. He thanked his wife, his parents, his children and his grandchildren. Then, the Princess erased the distance between the decades and said goodbye with another of the Catalan’s songs: “Fight for what you want and don’t despair if something isn’t right. Today can be a great day and tomorrow too. Before, he invited attendees to buy a ticket for the train of hope. Although almost everyone had arrived by AVE.
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