An endless loop. A beautiful decorative motif for the patio of what was a synagogue, resurrected centuries later as a rural house, called: «Virila's dream».
When I decided on the name of my novel: «El sueño del santo», I was curious to find this coincidence on the internet. The whole for the part, a synecdoche to speak of the same character, Saint Virila, and his dream towards a mystical experience, a kind of rehearsal for eternity.
At the presentation of the novel in Sos del Rey Católico, I chatted with Farnés, the person in charge, together with Javier, of rehabilitating the old synagogue and filling those centuries-old intramural walls with passing souls who can stay and enjoy the beautiful town of Sos del Rey Católico.
From the words of Farnés I understood that his arrival in Sos was accidental, although he immediately knew that he wanted to stay to revive one of those fascinating mansions, in that space of the world of singular magnetism.
I don´t know when they decided to decorate the entrance to "Virila´s Dream"; with the endless loop in the form of a pictogram, surely long before I considered writing a novel about the same geographical points that that curious shape draws.
They got to it, visualizing the idea of the tie from the beginning.
As the culmination of their work, the bow at the entrance symbolized passion, effort, that magnetism that captured them from day one. So much so that they decided to take it as an anagram for their rural house:
And there were already two coincidences. First: the name of the rural house and the name of the novel. Second: the endless loop and the geographical points of the enigma that underlies the story.
If Farnés and I had known each other some time ago, everything would make more sense. If I had been in his rural house before writing the novel, he could have suggested to me that one thing helped to visualize the other.
But both works were already finished before standing out as a sum of coincidences.
Surely many of those who surpass, like me, the Taitantos, will remember the image of Richard Dreyfuss raising with mud a strange construction that turned out to be the replica of a mountain where an encounter with aliens was going to take place. "Encounters in the Third Phase" was called the movie.
This would be "Encuentros en Sos del Rey Católico" but it is not a movie.