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INPRIMATU
Bonus track: where is the prize?
Gorka Peñagarikano Goikoetxea 2025eko urtarrilaren 31

They were all in food and drink, seemingly cheerful, but some were nervous between snacks and appetizers. He would receive the prize for the second time, but he would be the first to have it in his hands. And I was nervous because the reminder had to get to the office, damn it. LUZ The prizes aren’t usually parties with a big gap. We'll have to get to the office.

There was a time when the legend says that there used to be a party, that it was done, but in the last period the youngest members of LA LUZ are taking responsibility for the organization of the day and, without aggressive pretensions, you don’t have to think too much about what happens when the responsibility for organizing the party is left in the hands of people of a certain age: or at most two beers are coerced, the second one is well padded; or, to refute the previous statement and then, yes, the LA LUZ awards become a phase of disgrace. Needless to say, the matter is over. Or information has been hidden from this chronicler.

In the Enpi. Where did our friend get that award years ago? Because he's not in the office, and the office hasn't had a lot of changes in the last few years. Everything stays the same. Turn it upside down. But in a similar way. That award was upside down, too, but it was there, in the office. The only change there has been is that a colleague quit his job for what and to spend five self-condemned years in the library, pretending to scrutinize the databases of Bertsozale, Bertsoa, Xenpelar and whatever. But each one of them. That's the way it is. And just as this is so, so too is that LIGHT reward in its place.

He glances at the front of the table, just in case, to convince himself that this LUZ prize would at least come out of the Atxega palace, and visually signs the possible handlebars. Once seated, however, a long nose appears from there. What was missing. They say it's his birthday. Oh, come on, come on. And what, and explain it to the civil marriage of LA LUZ, by any chance? He said he had lunch. Look over there. Well, not at all.

This year’s award should be well kept. Not because it lost its predecessor, but because they were the last prizes of the esteemed sculptor Anton Mendizabal. Our friend also knows that the prizes will cost money in the resale. Make it clear. And take care of the office shelves.