Last week, I visited Llorenç del Penedès to participate in a book club at the library. Upon arrival, the librarian confessed that she was a little worried about whether enough people would come. In an attempt to reassure her, I mentioned that, in my experience, the smaller the town where a cultural event is organized, the more people are guaranteed to attend. Both the librarian and the Town Planning Councilor—who had been kind enough to replace the Culture Councilor, who was unwell—interrupted me briskly. "The thing is, Llorenç del Penedès is a special case." They didn't mean it was a rather apathetic town, quite the opposite: both assured me that it's a town with a huge cultural activity, very active, and that they were afraid the book club would coincide with some other scheduled event. "Sometimes we're forced to look bad in someone's face because we don't have to choose one of the activities that coincide," lamented the people of Llorenç.