Edvard Munch: La ruleta (‘Ved ruletten i Monte Carlo’), 1892. Rasmus Meyer Collection, Bergen (Noruega). |
No el azar sino la suerte.
Los eslabones de la vida. |
(O EL LENTO CRECIMIENTO DE LA PRIMAVERA)
(Arriba) Vías del tren de Tárrega (fragmento), de autor no identificado. (Debajo) Miquel Barceló: Petit amour fou, 1984. Col. particular. |
No hay que buscar ninguna razón especial para saber por qué La Bamba nos encanta. Es así desde la primera vez que la oímos, niños aún, quién sabe dónde y del todo ignorantes de que quizás estábamos oyendo la primera versión en lo latino de algo parecido a lo que acabaría siendo el rock. Fue mucho después cuando nos aprendimos el nombre de Ritchie Valens, y mucho más tarde aún cuando el cine nos vino a recordar la meteórica y triste carrera del joven cantante, fallecido en el mismo accidente aéreo en que murieron Buddy Holly y The Big Bopper, el fatídico 3 de febrero de 1959, desde entonces conocido como «el día que murió la música». No hace falta nada de eso, ni hurgar en las lagunas de la memoria o en los laberintos de la red, para sentirnos plenamente interpelados e incluidos en ese ritmo que, cada vez que nos alcanza nos da de lleno en el músculo del placer. «¡Y arriba, y arriba!».
(En voz alta). El destrozo de la calzada romana en Castrocalbón, pueblo de León que seguro que se llama así por algo, seguramente no será el peor atentado contra la arqueología cometido en tiempos recientes en los campos ibéricos. Pero llama mucho la atención que se haya podido llevar a cabo de forma tan estúpida, quizás no sólo por ignorancia a secas (la crónica habla de “analfabetismo”) sino por la alianza de esa rémora con la desidia. ¿Nadie se percató de lo que se estaba haciendo? ¿A ninguna estancia provincial o autonómica llegó ninguna alerta? No parece que sea esta una obra que se pueda ventilar de un día para otro, ni es creíble, en un país infestado de grupos de guasap, incluso en ámbitos rurales, que ninguna noticia del desastre llegara a ningún centro neuronal capaz de ser consciente de lo que se estaba perpetrando. Me temo que, un siglo después de la queja y el diagnóstico machadianos, el desprecio de la ignorancia y la indolencia siguen vigentes entre nosotros. (Recorte de El País, 31-3-23).
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