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He threw the words beyond life, he was an enjoyer, he contaminated the newspapers where he passed, his political columns will remain standing and we will have to return to them to find out what happened these years ... ", said Antonio Lucas, friend yesterday and David Gistau's colleague in the presentation of El penultimo negroni (Debate), a selection of 175 articles from EL MUNDO, ABC and La Razón that David Lema has selected and introduced.

"He was independent and honest with himself, editorialized in a different way than the newspaper, he did not talk about him, he was generous," added journalist Manuel Jabois.

To the point that it was Gistau who brought him to this newspaper from the 'Diario de Pontevedra.

"In its columns was everything, they resonated within you, it taught you not to let yourself be pushed ... and when you reread them, you expect the ingenuity that is yet to come, like a movie you've already seen," said Javier Aznar, also a comrade in arms.

And David Gistau laughing from a huge billboard (with his Santa beard, a black AC / DC short-sleeved T-shirt and jeans), as if to say "But what are you telling, what are you doing."

Francisco Rosell, Romina Caponetto and Joaquín Manso.A.

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Even the Fundación Telefónica came up to colleagues, friends and bosses to hear what they already knew, but they needed someone to remind them.

The president of the Editorial Unit, Antonio Fernández-Galiano;

the director of EL MUNDO, Francisco Rosell, the deputy director Joaquín Manso, among others.

And Luis Enríquez, CEO of Vocento, De ABC, Luis Enríquez, Agustín Pery, deputy director of ABC, Pedro García Cuartango, for a few years in that house ... And politicians like Ignacio Aguado, vice president of the Community of Madrid;

Andrea Levy, delegate of Culture of the Madrid City Council ... and Edu Galán, companion of those monthly appointments of Casa Lucio (with Gistau, Raúl del Pozo, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Jabois and Lucas, almost nothing).

And Luis Alberto de Cuenca, and his editors Elena Martínez (Debate) and Eva Serrano (Círculo de Tiza).

And Romina Caponnetto, his widow, discreet and attentive

Antonio Fernández-Galiano, president of Unidad Editorial.AH

It was about celebrating, commenting on their findings, that knowledge that is not exhibited.

"He tore the genres, widened the column beyond the canonical," writes David Lema in the prelude to the book.

There he gives an account of his first adventures as a student David who began in the Renfe magazine Paisajes from the train to his last journey in this newspaper.

In between, articles about taxi drivers, about Mou, Rajoy, ZP, River-Boca, Norman Mailer, the Panero, Why I hate Superman ... and about the beard.

"It seems you can't write about beards."

He did it and also wore it.

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