[The Critic] Spanish Dishonor

The scenic shame inflicted on Spain by Catalonia’s chief putschist shall not be easily forgotten.

In the dead of a mythical night echoing in eternity, before the unconquerable ramparts of a Near-Eastern outpost long thought lost, a league of Achean city-states outdid their fruitless ten-year siege through a legendary blitz enabled by subterfuge. Wheeling intra muros a wooden horse mistaken for a victory trophy offered up by a surrendering navy, Troy awoke mid-slumber to an elite Greek unit creeping out of the engine and flinging the gates open to an army that laid siege — thus ending, through stone-cold cunning, a war triggered by adulterous libido. The master stroke scored in Barcelona on Thursday morning, thirty-four centuries later and at the Mediterranean’s opposite end, recalls the genius of the wrathful Greeks — only with the act’s every feature inverted.

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