It turns out that I go to the library of Antonio Mendez, Mayor street, and say hey, buddy, you got the new Bible just removed the Episcopal Conference? And Antonio, who is a friend for twenty years, I look askance and say I see crappy, teacher, a Bible in your years. What you, Thomas. Have you seen the light, or what? And I answer that less choteo, kid, or bought at the Corte Ingles. Large areas, said today. And I want two a gift. Well I have to ask because I have not, leads Antonio. And I say: you should be ashamed. A bookcase with no new Bible in the window. I know you're not going to church and neither am I, and Monsignor Rouco and mariachis will fall, like me, like a kick in the duodenum. But we're not talking about opium of the people, or grandchildren of Trento tocapelotas, or historical and social havoc, but of culture, kid, that to be bookseller did you find out. One of the flow of wisdom that made us who we are, cóscate, Old and New Testaments, judeocristana culture, combined with Islam Mediterranean, Greece, Rome and all the paraphernalia, did what we call Western Europe and rebound: same site that also sounds like you, Antoñete, although that old Europe, in times of moral reference world, where human rights and the crucible of culture, we no longer recognize or the mother who bore her. Bookseller said in language, so to speak, I speak the greatest bestseller of history necessary to anyone trying to keep abreast of what is and what it does. To have it so handy as Cervantes, Shakespeare and Montaigne: four legs of the table where some support when we are tired elbows. I do not know if I explain.
After the banter between Antonio and I, a week after I have finally this new Bible at home, and, apart from the minor inconvenience to curse in Aramaic the rough touch of cloth binding under the web-wardens in the books always gave me teeth on edge, "I enjoy your pages of paper subtle and pleasant to touch, clean typography and the comforting weight of the volume in your hands. It is a beautiful specimen with the new translation canon of sacred texts into Castilian, which will be used in all the liturgical and catechetical, or whatever, the Catholic Church here. The canon, so to speak, the Bible official language of Cervantes. This makes it extremely important book, because, apart from close reading to do each one, the text, read at Mass and used from now on activities related to the subject, direct influence on the language they speak and write several million English-speaking Catholics. Is said quickly.
But that, the practitioner of the rock is only a part. At the end of out, the Bible is also and above all, a great wealth of fun, reflection and knowledge. A monument is essential to understand what was woven scrim what some reactionary and grumpy bastards like signing up call yet, with a mixture of melancholy and skeptical banter, Western culture that is non-or mind, what the heck " offend. In this context, the Bible is an extraordinary source stories, adventures, battles, betrayals, love, emotions and symbolism; matter than three thousand years ago the civilized world is nourished and inspired the greatest philosophers and artists of all ages, literature, music, painting and film included. Anyone seeking insight and intelligence that wants to interpret the world where you live and die, you can skip reading at least once in their life, the most famous and influential book, for good and bad, of all time . The Old and New Testaments, to a sacred history and divine revelation, and for other master key to culture and enlightenment, are essential to understand how we got here, we were and what we are. I pity those who do not have a Quixote and a Bible at home, if only to decorate furniture and reading four lines from time to time. And who does it reader to calculate. Only the Bible, reread again and again, enough to fill a lifetime. And eye. I insist that it is not religion, but of culture. The truth, not the pap skimmed educational allegedly imposed by those who legislate from the catheter mediocrity. Prejudices oppose the Bible is like putting forth a cathedral: no need to believe in God to visit and admire their beauty. To experience the majesty of the memory they cherish their old stones.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
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