Back to reality

Some relatives carry the coffin of a man who died of complications derived from covid-19 by the Ucayali River in Peru.Rodrigo Abd / AP

Death is not the measure of all things.

But the way we treat the dead tells what we think of the living.

I had been dragging a book by Adorno (

demands acute doses of attention) for years and he came to see me when the pandemic began to hit Spain like a granite gale.

His words seemed to enclose something more than a coda for those who were leaving in the thousands and in silence: “Only a humanity to which death is as indifferent as its members, a humanity that has died, can sentence to death by administrative means countless beings.

He prayed ...

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