I have been publishing the same Scorpio for three weeks

From: Julián Bastarrica To: Amparo Sesé, editor in chief Subject: about Scorpio

Amparo: I am writing before this reaches you from somewhere else. In January I delivered the twelve signs for the fifty-two weeks of the year, as I have every January since 1998, and while copying the files I duplicated Scorpio. Result: anyone born under Scorpio has spent three weeks reading exactly the same future. An unresolved conversation will settle before Friday.

Nobody has complained. Well, not nobody: Consuelo Iriarte, a Scorpio, has written three times. The first to say the conversation had settled. The second to say another one had. The third to ask whether I could leave it as it is, because this is the most accurate run in twenty-six years of reading me.

I offer you two options and you choose. One: we publish a correction. Two: we publish nothing and I do not write a new horoscope until September.

If you choose the first, give me some warning. Consuelo has an unresolved conversation and I would rather not spoil it for her.