Learning of the feat instantly from my friend Paco March, I went straight to the web wing of the newsroom and, excited, sang the happy news:
-Morante has cut a queue in Seville!
The editorial staff of La Vanguardia is formidable, varied and plural, but it has one shortcoming: I am the only one who likes bulls. There is more interest in RCD Espanyol – I have located two and a half parrots – and even in non-profit alpinism than in bullfighting, hence the need to add something that would add dimension to the news.
– It had been 50 years since nobody cut a queue in Seville!
Suddenly, behind a computer, I noticed a young colleague burst out laughing. Wow, that was hiding the laughs.
I also took it at face value and without biting the hook. We have fought in worse places!
Now: is this the society we want? Young people who have not been taught that cutting a queue in Seville is not an event and consists of opening the door of the PrÃncipe, being carried to a hut through the streets to a hotel, while the anti-bullfighting drivers shit on the matador’s mother and the tourists take photos, convinced that in Spain in the afternoon we go for a walk in bullfighter dresses with appendages in hand.
The fault, of course, lies with the Government – ​​whatever it is – for not including bull language workshops in classrooms. If so, the youth would know that “God bless you” is not a Treasury campaign and “there is no bad fifth” refers to the hope to stop yawning in the stands and not to the difficulties of finding a stable partner after four punctures. Or that “a toro pasado” is what the pros do in the arena and talk shows on the radio after every election.
Nonsense aside, the bulls lack social prestige, not language, and there remains the key afternoon of Morante de la Puebla and the validity of “he did a job with two ears and a tail”, applicable to a good job.
Thanks to the generation of 27, the bullfighting language, so popular, was legalized by the Royal Academy and continues there, like Don Tancredo. And what cannot be, cannot be and is also impossible.
