Gone are the days of San Jorge , and with it a flurry of books and roses. Sincere love for fiction and traditions, each April 23 gladly attend and enjoy the show ephemeral imagining that this was scanned and disenchanted people back home not only with the loaf of bread, but also with a book under his arm and still There are sensitive men who seek the best flower for your lady. Yes, always contemplate the scene from a safe distance, I approached it just posts, not the coach becomes a pumpkin before midnight: I try not to distinguish the titles that people are rushing, not noticing too in clonal roses piled in bins florists. But after living and dreaming, is what matters most, awakening. At midnight comes the sadness and grieve for all those books that will be abandoned by all those jars in eviction until next year and thousands of authors who were not included in the lists of the Sunday magazine and could not open the mass hunger and alleviate theirs. The next morning, everything has seemed, in fact, a dream . garlands remain fall after the party: bookmarks announcing next best-sellers, withered petals on the floor, languid waving flags on balconies, shelves crowded and empty aisles in bookstores. Walking through the streets and run into-as usual, only three or four people and one or two libraries, and I forget the hubbub of the previous day, and I am excited to think that minority (e) reading choosing, seeking and retrieval in hidden libraries or Internet endless catalogs to find the book only once heard and was interested, a book to buy and read with relish though its author never step on a television set or sign in El Corte Ingles. Of course, this song is not new. In the 40 Pedro Salinas defended the minority reader and hated both the book clubs or societies as people who, for convenience, be deprived of free luxury of choosing their reading: The phantoms of long, time, causes many to forget the law and, more seriously, the duty to be active themselves, its selective power, and the drop lazily. Danger, this, that society tutor, instead of stimulating intellectual activity, moving to operate on their own, the blunt and accept reduced to a simple, monthly, automatic, what others have chosen [.. .] Vested interests, then push the selectors to choose, with no thought put into the pure merits of the works in question, but the odds that the public taste loudly accept their failure and the book will acquire the majority of subscribers.
So we should not overwhelm both overwhelmed by the news, lists and hundreds of titles must read in order to do well in society, but by knowing how to choose, clearing , select and save a little time to read and reread those few books well chosen. And that's all we need:
is conformity: conformity with the time given us by God's providence, accordance with that reality imposed on us not to read books that stretch longer time than it fit read, deep, fertile and gently. What can not be many? Well they are good.
(Pedro Salinas: "Defense of Reading")
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