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" Without blood there is no light and light always comes from the hand of blood . Unfortunately, the human being does not get the best of himself if there is no stick, if there is no misfortune," says cheli Emilio Alcázar. Friday, March 13, was the last day on which the twins - Emilio and José Alcázar (Chamberí, 1966) - stepped on their longed for number 25 on the Gran Vía . Today they count 64 days of confinement from their " keli of 40 square meters" in Vallecas.
Since 2001 they have never spent so much time apart from their representative location, where they claim "what was the Gran Vía, not only the Madrid Rock , but the vinyl shops in the surrounding streets that closed, bars that had been running since the Civil War .. Then the kingdom of Inditex arrived and the Gran Vía has turned into seedy tourism shops and franchises that are not worth it, "Emilio criticizes by telephone.
The Gran Vía heavys present themselves as "anarchists", they love rock, literature and cinema. They assure that they are complying with "rajatabla" the state of alarm and try to follow a routine to lose the feeling of "being mentally lost". Until two months ago, they spent up to seven hours in the Madrid artery. Now they change the jeans for a recycled tracksuit, but the shirts are still from hard rock bands . "We walked 40 minutes walking around the room, about three kilometers, then you do some push-ups and some funds," say the brothers, who in full confinement read meditation and history books, watch pirate movies, listen to "musicola" and spend a lot of time time contemplating themselves because "in silence you can also freak out," says Emilio.
On May 2, the Alcázar twins went out to give the first volt. José had a hard time going down to the street, but his brother did not: "It's just that everything is very nice now." "You are on your site, but as if it were not your site. As it happened inside, we have to rediscover ourselves," he says. In the entire quarantine, they had only been out on the street once, when they had been confined for 33 days . "We went to Dia to grab bread and four more things. We have been throwing away what we had stored. Since we have been recycling for 15 years, we had many things stored. Now it is impossible to recycle," says Emilio, who affirms that the stock is already running out. food that they usually collect from the garbage cans . "Wealth is your non-need, so with little you settle. So you know that it is inside where you have to search and not outside." "And eating the same, because with little is enough. The less posh you are, the better, " Emilio sentenced and called his brother, José, to get on the phone.
Neither mobile nor internet
"I have a key cell phone, but my brother doesn't even have a cell phone," Emilio jokes about the Knack music while he passes the phone to his brother. José answers the call with joy and confesses that they are doing well. " As I do not have a mobile phone, I have spent 50 days without talking to anyone but my brother . But I do not care, you have to speak metaphysically with yourself to see how you are. It is a great opportunity to realize how you are united with the source. This has happened for everyone to make some peace with himself and see no cheating . it was a very unexpected positive test and, if properly cultivated , "says José , with the rasp castizo representing the Alcázar -, and returns to his brother the 2G mobile phone of which few people know the number.
José and Emilio claim to live on little, they are very fans of the writer and ufologist JJ Benítez, and they watch one or two movies every night. Then, around 2 in the morning, they have dinner, go to the envelope and read until their eyes are closed "around 5 in the morning". "We have not even recorded internet Friends series and we have loads of. Pelis is. Debuti a series called Britannia,. Also we are seeing the Vikings We really like the epic", share laughs. "We are almost always reading history books, we read a lot . Now I am reading the American Psycho novel . I also liked a meditation one called the Fourth Dimension, " says Emilio.
The twins speak from the twilight of that madrilenian macarrería and slang that is in danger of extinction, and transmit tranquility and camaraderie. Their optimism in the face of the viral pandemic stands out, although their humanistic rhetoric is known - by every person who has stopped one day to chat with them. According to José, each person will approach this dystopia according to their "understandings and their lights." "To some it will have seemed martyrdom, each one does with his energy what he can, what he knows and, sometimes, even what he must do. Let's see if we can be more human and less separated because this should have united us a lot" .
The Gran Vía will continue without its heavys - and vice versa - until the expected end of the state of alarm. Then, rain, hail or snow, they will return mottled with their leather and metal items to retake their post ; like the two twin living statues that they are. At the moment, the Alcázar brothers show their gray hair outside at eight in the afternoon to applaud. "We see it as an obligation. To encourage and be encouraged: it is a symbiosis. And, above all, to support and thank the club, which is becoming infected bare-chested" and, after the applause of the health, they go down to the park of Below where they claim to have seen " lots of UFOs, uncountable . What do you not think?", José concludes, sighting the Vallecano sky.
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