In one of his chronicles on "the advent of the Second Republic",
Josep Pla
refers to the encounter (in reality, a clash) between José
Ortega y Gasset
and
Alfonso XIII
in a main house in the Basque Country and in which the monarch took the opportunity to take an interest on what academic discipline the distinguished professor taught.
When answering to him "of metaphysics, Sir", the King played a joke that this one misfit: "That must be very complicated".
The Ampurdán writer raised the anecdote to a category by deducing that e
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