News surprises, outrages, delights, or saddens. It never causes indifference. Some, like the arrest of Jonathan Andic, simply leave that bad taste in the mouth against which no toothpaste or mouthwash is effective.
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I include myself in the list of greetings from Isak Andic and clarifying this I do not aspire to give myself importance – a very common sin in the profession, myself first – but to argue that bad taste in the mouth, typical of every Shakespearean tragedy. And this is one.
We shared two dinners with about ten guests at the home of one of his good friends and neighbor. At the first, Andic seemed reserved and not given to protagonism. My surprise came when he asked me if I saw possibilities of an insurrection against Putin. I didn’t even sense it! Luckily I added that woe to anyone who tried…. Two or three weeks later, Prigozhin sent his Wagner mercenaries on their way to Moscow.
Isak Andic seemed to me a fair man, one of those who today would say let justice act
At the second dinner I appreciated a warmer personality and genuine cordiality, the opposite of smoke sellers. There he won me over because, being the first fortune of Catalonia, he listened, even to a nobody newly arrived from Israel in the middle of a war. The last thing he did was to let out his opinions and try to impose his points of view. He conveyed that magnetism of great men, with the added value of a self-made man. Of the entrepreneur to whom no one has given anything and who deserves every last euro of his fortune. In this country, as in all, we lack people like that. Those who, by demanding rights, forget obligations, we already have plenty.
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We met for the last time at the Planeta award party, October 15, 2024. He had the courtesy to come over to greet. A gesture that no classist would have had (classism is a very interclass defect in Spain). On December 14 he died as he did, without time to continue enjoying life, wines, sailing, and all the pleasures he had earned through hard work, becoming rich and creating wealth for others.
He seemed to me a fair man, one of those who today would say let justice work and not speak just for the sake of speaking. And that intensifies the bad taste in the mouth for tot plegat.
