To each his own theme
If we are going to go to the Dictionary, the one of the Royal Spanish Academy, crazy is someone who has lost his mindwho is not in his right mind…
Wow, have we ever been in them?… And the cabals -who are always Spanish and never shut up- They answer: “Yes, riders, more than once, but, other times, when your impatience has won you a lot, you have derailed, spoken and acted beyond reason and, in such movements, your feet have come out of the stirrups… These should never be lost!”…
The cabals are right. Also, if one learned to ride, he is an expert rider, why lose his temper involuntarily?… Due to distraction? No. For the usual: for anxiety. And with her her Siamese sister, the obsession…
And yes!… Or do we not crush and crush, in one way or another, with “it” that we like and are attracted to so much, many times without registering how much it matters to the environment? Because it’s our theme! And because, finally, we are all crazy: each other. That was what the Devil Cojuelo proclaimed in 17th century Spain, a legendary little devil who was known as the most mischievous spirit in hell…
It is not known where this saying comes from, what its origin is, but most likely -like most of them- it was transmitted orally from mouth to mouth… “La pícara Justina”, a novel written by Francisco López de Úbeda in 1605, turned out to be a huge hoarder of proverbs. Today’s proverb was also written on it for the first time…
Santiago de Mora-Figueroa, Marqués de Tamarón, went beyond Justina and the Cervantes Virtual Center. The Marquis affirms that “Cada loco con la tema de él” refers to “the subject”, not “to the subject”. And what is the theme, Marquis? “The theme is a fixed idea that the insane usually have”…
I saw this: when the latest in the Star Wars franchise was released, a neighbor’s son and three friends dressed up as Darth Vader… each madman with his theme! Right, Nano?
