WHEN DYING IS A METAPHORE

The insolent journalist asked Madrid's Mayor about the city's ceaslessly alarming degree of pollution:

"Mrs. Mayor, how do you interpret that grey filthy fog wrapping Madrid up that some experts consider too toxic to be breathed?"

The Mayor showed her best smile and replied:

"How would I interpret it? As something really magnificient: Madrid is not wrapped up in pollution, but surrounded by a halo of mystery..."

Frantz Ferentz