il Calendario 2003
REVALUATION OF THE CALENDAR
The silent rivalry between watch and calendar went unnoticed for many many years. When first appeared, the watch received the title of Time Piece, which is how it was seen by Dickens, Twain, Sir Walter Scott, and their lot in the 19th century. Through the art of Faberger, the watch became a symbol of nobility, wealth, a status symbol. The calendar, on the other hand, didn't get such consideration from jewel makers or designers, and always played a more gregarious role, barely highlighted by the end of the year when everyone goes out and buy a new one. A lot should be said about the calendar. Although its repetitive cadence makes it stale after just one month, in the sequences of our daily routine it receives as much attention as the watch does. Who dares to remove it from the wall? How can we ever? Its job is that of dividing time not only in years, but in eras, eons, and, inconspicuous as it looks, the calendar is the depository of the history of humanity. Who but the calendar bears the brunt of all major events: quakes, wars, 9/11s, meetings with our partners, the birth of offspring, the deaths of friends
and family, are all slotted into its pages and remembered by date. Hours get lost in the great academy of time. Contrary to the watch -- always wobbling after the state of its battery --the calendar is never discarded but remains forever on call for our history survives in its pages, and it performs just as well when read in reverse. If all this
weren't enough this influential dignitary appears to be the sole lasting witness o f our presence on earth, dutifully recorded between two dates hosted in its pages. Having said all this, who is, in your opinion, the real Time Piece? Wouldn't you say the calendar is? Strictly confidential, I see it as the real piece de resistence
� Make the best of it
Yours, L. Belmonte