10 Finally the other day a crab pinched me. I was drying myself, I had just come out of the sea, I put my foot in a crack in the rock and the crab was there, the size of a lizard, emerald and shiny like a jewel. I appreciated the pinch, it had never happened to me, it took a long time, I have been bathing in the same cove for decades.For decades I have been bathing in the same cove, which, precisely because it is always the same, is different each time. This only happens in nature. The cove has its best day every day. I can assure you because over the years I have gained a physical, territorial, and sensitive knowledge of it like a second skin. Perhaps too sensitive. Over the years I have witnessed the changes: how the mother-of-pearls became extinct, how a large part of the seagulls and sea urchins disappeared, how the water warmed up, how the dinghies and kayaks, groups of swimmers, and, this very summer, tent camps multiplied. Massification is fatal in the only place on the planet and the only moment in history when the word densification has been sold in a positive light. The administration is already like a private business. I am from a family of hoteliers, but one of the happiest days of my life was when Mayor Collboni announced that he was taking to Barcelona the Thyssen painting collection that was to be installed in my city.

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