The poetic,
in the poet himself, is not the salt, but the gold which, according to what is
said, the sea water also contains.
What Juan
de Mairena says about gold, not very confidently to be honest, is true: There
is some gold in the sea water, but there are also many different elements in
amounts that scientists call traces. These amounts are roughly worth the value
of the clembuterol found in Alberto Contador´s steak.
Everyone
knows that the sea water contains NaCl, which is responsible for its taste.
Many Chemistry teachers like to delight their students by telling them that we
can find all the elements of the
periodic table in the sea. And they do that while pointing at the periodic table
hanging on the wall, as if they were the weather forecaster when he is marking the
tempest that will affect the whole east of the peninsula.
I think
salt is the only substance, or one of the few, whose extraction from the sea
water is economically profitable. For example, the salt mine of San Fernando mentioned in Camarón´s song. If you ever happen to
buy some salt in these salt mines, the smallest parcel you can take weighs 30
kg at least, which is enough to cook some gilt-head breams on a salt bed.
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