A Letter from the Long June, in Fragments“April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land…” — T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) “Tout ce que je sais, c’est que le premier pas vers la connaissance est de reconnaître son ignorance.” — Sacha Guitry, attributed “History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” — Mark Twain, attributedI. Two Idols at CibelesI want to begin, as one must in this century, with two crowds. In Madrid, on the first weekend of June 2026, the Metr...