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THE WORLD
A man from the town of Neguá, on the coast of Colombia, was able to climb to high heaven. On his return he told the story. He said he had contemplated human life from above. And he said we are a sea of little fires.
—The world is just that —he revealed—, a bunch of people, a sea of little fires.
Each person shines with his own light among all the others. No two fires are the same. There are big fires and small fires and fires of all colors. There are people of serene fire, who don’t even notice the wind, and people of crazy fire who fill the air with sparks. Some fires, silly fires, do not light or burn; but others burn the life with such passion that one cannot look at them without blinking, and whoever comes close to them lights up.*
Eduardo Galeano, 1989
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A century ago, in 1924, the first Latin American art exhibition was held in Paris (1). It was the inter-war years, over 300 Latin American artists landed in the City of Light, and out of the frenzy of the Roaring Twenties…
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THE WORLD
A man from the town of Neguá, on the coast of Colombia, was able to climb to high heaven. On his return he told the story. He said he had contemplated human life from above. And he said we are a sea of little fires.
—The world is just that —he revealed—, a bunch of people, a sea of little fires.
Each person shines with his own light among all the others. No two fires are the same. There are big fires and small fires and fires of all colors. There are people of serene fire, who don’t even notice the wind, and people of crazy fire who fill the air with sparks. Some fires, silly fires, do not light or burn; but others burn the life with such passion that one cannot look at them without blinking, and whoever comes close to them lights up.*
Eduardo Galeano, 1989
*
A century ago, in 1924, the first Latin American art exhibition was held in Paris (1). It was the inter-war years, over 300 Latin American artists landed in the City of Light, and out of the frenzy of the Roaring Twenties…
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