...la tierra, yo. Yo y la tierra. Los principios. El principio.
For years i've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals.
I've forced myself to live like everyone else,
to look like everyone else.
I said what was necessary to join together,
even when I felt separate.
And after all of this,
catastrophe came (...)
Albert Camus
I am my mother’s son. All other identities are artificial and recent. Naked, basic, actually, I am my mother’s son.
I emerged from her womb and set out on this earth.
The earth gave me another identity, that of name, personality, appearance, character, and spirit.
The earth is my grandmother; I am the earth’s grandson.
The way I comb my hair today has nothing to do with myself, who am my mother’s son and the earth’s grandson.
I am put on this earth to prove that I am my mother’s son.
I am also on this earth, my grandmother, to be her spokesman, in my chosen and natural way.
The earth owns the least to myself; she shall take me back, and my mother too.
We have proven the earth’s truth and meaning, which is, simply life and death.
Jack Kerouac
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