José Martí
(1853—1895)
Ismaelillo
(1882)
PROLOGUE
My son:
Terrified by everything, I take refuge in you.
I have faith in human improvement, in the life to come, in the usefulness of virtue, and in you.
If anyone tells you that these pages resemble other pages, tell them that I love you too much to profane you thus. Just as I paint you here, so my eyes have seen you. In these fineries you have appeared to me. When I have ceased to see you in one form, I have ceased to paint you. These streams have flowed through my heart
About 400 vulnerable residents, including children and the elderly, have been forced to camp on the streets of Rome in tents outside the evacuated Spin Time Labs building amid a brutal heatwave with temperatures soaring past 40°C (104°F).
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