Pintxos

Jacques Derrida wrote in Glas that The glue of chance creates sense and he was almost correct. It is in fact the toothpick of reading and writing - taken in their most expansive senses - that connects one chance event to another that binds together however briefly the volatility of events. Chance and art: the pleasures of sensuous sensibilities the distinctions of the conceptual and the free-flowing sociability of a promenade as the day rounds almost imperceptibly toward the night. Watch out for the drunken philosophers poets and painters; listen to the talking parrots and puppets; beware of the marauding pirates and politicians; and marvel at the red hand-prints on the dark walls of caves. Pintxos is best read in a manner similar to nibbling on its namesake tasted bit-by-bit as you wander from one bar to the next along the evening streets of San Sebastian.