Laura Alcoba: "Listen to what Our Lady wanted to tell us"

Laura Alcoba, Argentine resident in France since the 70s, shares here at the request of
THE NATION your sorrow and your hope after the regrettable
Fire of Our Lady. Alcoba is a writer, editor and specialist in French and Spanish languages, and author of several texts, including a trilogy in which she describes her experiences and her apprenticeship as a montoneros girl.
"The blue bees" and "The house of rabbits" and "
The spider dance ".

He writes: "The pain is infinite, a pain that could have happened, surprised to learn on the radio that there was a fire alarm that went off, but that no one l & # 39; It's taken seriously, and the sudden impression that it has happened here, it's about all of us, about culture, about the planet, about everything we let ourselves be consumed. Are alarms sounding and ignored, how many of Our Lady let them burn as you do?

"Notre Dame was beauty, history and beauty in the heart of Paris, it is also the starting point of France (distances are always given from the point of 0 km which corresponds to Our Lady.) The symbol could not be stronger: the center, the threshold, the starting point of all journeys are lost: before the flames, a feeling of vertigo was added to the pain, but today, despite all, the silhouette of Notre Dame, with its strange form of C is a spider, she is still there, she resisted the structure, I agree what we hear in the streets of Paris: we will fix it, rebuild what needs to be rebuilt, heal what needs to be healed, take care of it later, and listen to what she meant. "