XVI

Había algo mágico en los Royal Rumbles de lucha libre

Y para nada me refiero

A la lucha de todos contra todos

NO

Lo mágico se hallaba

En la sorpresa de quien iba a entrar al ring

De quien iba a socorrer la confusión

Penetrando como trueno el brío del caos

La anticipación orgásmica

Provocaba alegría

Y si el desconocimiento ahogaba

De repente se terminaba una y otra vez con la chicharra

Y los gritos anunciaban la venida

De la próxima personalidad que se mezclaría

En la tormenta de voluntades

Que tomaba lugar en el espectáculo artificial del ring

5, 4, 3,

Y no importaba si sabías quien era o no

2,

Lo que importaba era que era otro factor

Que preñaría con sus singulares variables la situación

Ocasionaría cambio

La única constante en el universo...

Y lo haría (aunque fuese de show)

por voluntad propia...

1...

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"A few years back we were applied to by Russia. Now, there has been no friendship between the court of St. Petersburg and my family. It has Dutch connections, which have generally supplied it; and our representations in favor of the Polish Hebrews, a numerous race, have not been very agreeable to the Czar. However, circumstances drew to an approximation between the Romanoffs and the Sidonias. I resolved to go myself to St. Petersburg. I had, on my arrival, an interview with the Russian Minister of Finance, Count Cancrin; I beheld the son of a Lithuanian Jew. The loan was connected with the affairs of Spain; I resolved upon repairing to Spain from Russia. I traveled without intermission. I had an audience immediately on my arrival with the Spanish Minister, Sefior Mendizabel; I beheld one like myself, the son of a Nuevo Cristiano, a Jew of Arragon. In consequence of what transpired at Madrid, I went straight to Paris to consult the President of the French Council; I beheld the son of a French Jew, a hero, an imperial marshal, and very properly so, for who should be military heroes if not those who worship the Lord of Hosts?...

The consequence of our consultations was that some Northern power should be applied to in a friendly and meditative capacity. We fixed on Prussia; and the President of the Council made an application to the Prussian Minister, who attended a few days after on our conference. Count Arnim entered the cabinet, and I beheld a Prussian Jew. So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."

-Benjamin Disraeli

"Coningsby" 1852