WORD fumbled
Geniograma
The first, published on page 9 in the morning edition of Saturday March 26, 1960, is well preserved in a thick book of black paste in the collection of El Comercio.
Around this historical issue myopic eyes wander David Madrid Sabelin, totally dedicated to the pleasure of filling in the horizontal and vertical boxes of his passion.
"How beautiful, how beautiful was the first Geniograma" says Don David, sitting in the library's main journal.
The phrase sounds like a compliment. It is the impression of a man 86, who lives in Pueblo Libre, but whose children walked by Barrios Altos. He was 36 when creating Mario Lara was born.
Mario Lara
Don David's fingers run through the paper and pet photo Maguiña Alicia, whose waltz "Viva Peru and serene" right vertical column covered the first issue, the left vertical, the front of Torre Tagle, and below a choir, two players from Alianza Lima and a teletype. In between, the facade of the newspaper. "I make the Geniograma long, my older sister gave me copies," pronounce it carefully, as if he were writing the words.
Don David mind begins to fill this historical issue, always from the bottom up. Think aloud: "Help, SOS; river of Italy, Po Mud, mud, was Russian, Tsar, ocean, sea, fine wood, ebony, Cross, INRI, some things I have already lists" puffed up by a seconds.
confesses that his final appeal to find information is to seek help from their granddaughters, skilled in the computer.
"The geniogramista is an enthusiast, a person willing to know. What you learn in this way, it is recorded for all life, "he says.
Alejandro Ollague Guija his sister Nelly has the ideal partner to complete the Geniograma. He will soon reach 74, and her eyes today seems to focus only on a sheet of graph paper. follows crossword since the early 1960's. Sing us, a great honor, Mr. Alexander has worked for the Ministry of Health, but in his spare time was paid to monitoring of photos, phrases and signs, often enigmatic for him, as he confesses.
"Making Geniograma is like an obligation. Sometimes after a search that ended buying or borrow a book or encyclopedia, "he says.
During the week, Don Alejandro is half and half geniogramista retired. Never leave your dictionary let alone the world almanacs that supply its small library.
snooping Geniograma the first number, looks up and says, concluding: "The Geniograma is a culture medium, wholesome entertainment."
Noon and runs the summer heatwave. Suddenly, come two very different characters. One of them could be confused by their thinning hair es, but Nestor Valencia Isihuaylas only has 49. Jokingly says that his parents conceived him while the Geniograma born in the summer of 1960.
is an architect graduated from UNI, and now her nephew will follow the steps: David Valencia Zapata (17) studied mining engineering at the university. Both are inspired geniogramistas.
The boy lives in Chorrillos and from there goes to ravine to see his grandfather. His step Geniograma was slow, but steady, supported by their kin fond verbal game.
David is a young man as anyone, but the difference is that in addition to Play Station, plays skillfully with the vertical and horizontal paper.
"It helps to be agile with words, fingers intertwined, confident, and her gaze wanders among the first Geniograma empty boxes.
Uncle Nestor intervenes to say that always looks Geniograma complete without assistance. With resignation, however, see dictionaries and encyclopedias, and online only after their last resort.
"Ms. Lara always puts, for example, Liam Neeson," announces Nestor. "But there are patterns," David is quick to clarify, not without warning he is not as obsessive as his uncle.
This is a game, they finally understood Nestor. "And it celebrates the self," he adds.
If Geniograma wanted from the beginning to be part of people's lives, he has succeeded. If not, speak the David, the Nestor Alejandro or Peru.
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