We are a small sect, those who collect unnecessary quotes. They are the ones we find, for example, on the blackboard in a bar when we are offered bread with “tomato”, which makes you alert and wonder what on earth they must rub the toast with, if they need to mark the word ortho-typographically. The reason offered us a glorious headline today, with “Els affines a Sánchez open the crossing of “razors” between them”. It doesn’t seem like these razors between quotes at the break of dawn need to be a date (although the rotary tends to use and abuse unidentified sources for its knife-edge brawls). Well, at the tip of a “knife”, they already understand me. Note that the headline is built on a big gap. We do not know and are not told who these like-minded people are, against whom they have deployed their daggers – sorry, their “daggers” – or what these alleged cross attacks have consisted of. Nor is it said that everything stems from the Salazar affair, in which a Moncloa adviser has been accused of sexual harassment of two socialist militants. Zero food, just the trans fats of the more or less gassy hints.
In fact, the previous day’s headline was also very peculiar. (Okay: “peculiar”.) It said: “Sánchez “fears” Salazar: he knows everything about his primaries”. Once again we find some comets orphaned by father and mother. And a latent threat looms that they are unable to pinpoint. Everything? what is all “He is the keeper of all his secrets”, they write in a subtitle more typical of a fantasy novel by JRR Tolkien than of journalistic prose that aims to supply facts and data. What secrets? It is very noticeable that they would like the scandal to take Sánchez off their feet, but they know that the only thing they can do is to suggest a tension of bread soaked in (palm) oil and write vague headlines without juice. Or, rather, fuzzy “headlines” without juice.
