Bread for the spirit

Eva Vazquez

Not only of bread the man lives.

If I were hungry and helpless in the street, I would not ask for bread;

rather, I would ask for half a bread and a book ”.

A few words, these from Federico García Lorca, simple but enlightening in a terrible moment in which, due to the pandemic, many governments have decided to leave supermarkets open while bookstores and libraries, schools and theaters close.

In September 1931 - five years before he was savagely murdered by Franco's militias - on the occasion of the inauguration of the municipal library of his town, Fuente ...

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