{"id":547078,"date":"2026-08-18T17:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pisofranco.gal\/artigos\/2026\/08\/18\/balada-da-escaleira-547078\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T09:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T07:59:59","slug":"balada-da-escaleira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pisofranco.gal\/en\/artigos\/2026\/08\/18\/balada-da-escaleira-547078\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballad of the Starcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a young man, in a time of blue duffle coats and red scarves, he leaned toward Bakunin\u2019s side. He imagined utopia as a country of rain falling on stones, raised fists, ten\u2011cent\u2011thick books, a few disputes between analytics and scientifics, and where every student flat had central heating.<\/p><p>As a young man he finished his degree helping some professors paste posters and doing fieldwork for research that would never bear his name. The day he wore the first suit of his life \u2014at his father\u2019s funeral\u2014 he thought there had to be something for him on the other side of the wall, and the loop of relativism collectivised his ambition. He opened the catalogue of possibilities and found something good to his right. He picked up the pace and learned, above all, to understand that other people\u2019s merits were his own. So determined was he to represent those who had not chosen him that he set himself an immediate goal and talked his way into achieving it.<\/p><p>He was the only Galician who climbed the staircase while progressively lowering his head. He was a plumber, secretary, substitute, deputy, adviser, until one day someone whispered in his ear: you could be the next. The turkey spread its feathers with the milkmaid\u2019s calculations, but the next day the press gave another name for the seat. The urge to break the world devoured him before they could announce here comes the one who will take your place. His hand, like a spring, shot forward and his lips drew a disciplined smile to greet hello, councillor.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-verse\">Story written from the words \u201cBakunin\u201d and \u201ccouncillor\u201d proposed by Diego Ameixeiras.<\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a young man, in a time of blue duffle coats and red scarves, he leaned toward Bakunin\u2019s side. He imagined utopia as a country of rain falling on stones, raised fists, ten\u2011cent\u2011thick books, a few disputes between analytics and scientifics, and where every student flat had central heating. As a young man he finished &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":547079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[204,257,257,405,232],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-547078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-cover","8":"category-by-other-peoples-tale","10":"category-so-many-things-so-far-from-home","11":"category-books"},"acf":[],"post_template":"narrativa","post_subscription":"no","pretitle":"","content_extract":"As a young man, in a time of blue duffle coats and red scarves, he leaned toward Bakunin\u2019s side. He imagined utopia as a country of rain falling on stones, raised fists, ten\u2011cent\u2011thick books, a few disputes between analytics and scientifics, and where every student flat had central heating. 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