Two tribal elders talked about repentance these days. Mario Vargas Llosa – 87 in a month – stopped being “surrounded by his books” to go out with Isabel Preysler.. He’s back on the library fence and regrets nothing. This is a state of unrepentant action. Ramón Tames – 3 months 89 years ago – was tempted by Vox to pass a motion of no confidence against the government of Pedro Sánchez, and if he doesn’t agree, “I might regret it for the rest of my life.” It’s a case of avoidance of regret through negligence. Age size matters. Long live Ramon Tames!, but he didn’t have that much time to regret going to the dance with Santiago Abascal. As for Vargas Llosa, let them distract him from dancing with Isabel Preysler.
Regret is dissatisfaction, a common recurring grief. Catholic repentance erases the damage done to one’s conscience in order to realize the wrong done and correct it. The Church very faithfully created this incentive in exchange for confidential information. The FBI copied it with the gangsters who confessed. Regret has a bigger problem, the guilt that shames certain actions or omissions. “A handful of remorse,” Alberto Cortez sang. Regret remembers. In old age, when death is imminent and memory is weak, it does not affect much. The freedom of the free elder is about a long life experience and a short life expectancy.
The case of Vargas Llosa and Tames is an opportunity, a belated opportunity, to do what they always love, to take another spin on the carousel. According to tradition, the devil would seduce at this opportunity. “It only happens once in a lifetime”Tames talked about the Vox offer as if she were a Eurovision entrant. The two elders received an offer when they were at an age where they would not give it to anyone, a house with the least risk of remorse and remorse, and a house they could not return to or leave.