This week saw one of the most exciting deaths television has given us
Death in Granada is something else. Dying, the fact that you lose your life is sad and blunt and circular, like everywhere else. But death, what’s still in the air, the drama that happens around it and the ripples it creates in everyone’s life – or in life just like that – is something else in Granada. One goes to a funeral home, cries, falls apart and then, reinvented and rewritten and re-erected, goes down through the Alhambra. That walk is perhaps my city’s most vital poetry. The tall trees seem to speak and tell you things like “go on, you stay” or “rub your eyes, this is beautiful”.
Recently I went to say goodbye to a friend, at the cemetery of Granada. Actually to a friend’s father, which is kind of like saying boyfriend twice. Or father twice. Those days – more and more, damn gray hair – I like to walk downstairs, to think. And I think. This week we saw one of the most exciting deaths television has given us. Exciting in the broadest, most complex and contradictory sense. The death of an old man, in bed. No flying swords, epic speeches, whistling dragons or raw music. Just an old man leaving.
Dying is also a reason to celebrate the past, which is not what no longer exists, but what really existed. And if it existed, it exists and will exist, like the Beatles’ ‘Yesterday’. The deaths that matter most to us always happen in the penultimate chapter, in chapter 9, and they do this because of a structure problem, a script. Because stories, like life, cannot end in death. Or at least that’s what those of us who stay here want. Anyway. Let each cry his share and let the tears fall in order. And hopefully when the time comes, the sun will rise over the Alhambra, or at least it will rain in silence.
Source: La Verdad
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