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Tal vez la tierra ha sido removida y se le ha permitido entrar a un brazo del mar para proteger nuestras flotas de las ventiscas del norte (¡y qué majestuosa empresa fue ésta!); o un pantano, durante largo tiempo espacio estéril en el cual se apilaban los remos, ha sido puesto bajo el arado y produce ahora alimento para poblados vecinos; o se ha obligado a un río a cambiar un curso ruinoso para los trigales, haciéndole un canal más recto: sean lo que sean, las obras de los hombres pasarán. ¡Cuánto menos probable es que la gloria y la gracia de una lengua tengan vida perdurable!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHoracio vivió en tiempos del máximo esplendor del único imperio que no ha tenido hasta la fecha émulo en Occidente, como no sea el actual imperio americano. El puerto artificial de Portus Julius, construido para Augusto por Agripa, fue su Canal de Panamá; el drenaje de los pantanos pontinos su irrigación de California y el enderezamiento del curso del Tiber su Hoover Dam. Quizá vería en la obra de Whitman un equivalente de la gloria y gracia de su lengua latina.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e¡Qué difícil, como decía Horacio, ser original al hablar de lo más común, y qué habrá más común que el amor y la muerte! Que conste, quizá la mayoría de los seres humanos no haya conocido toda la profundidad del amor, y es más que posible que no haya conocido la muerte. Por otra parte, tal vez puede decirse que casi sin excepción todo humano ha sido al menos vecino del amor, por ejemplo al enamorarse o al tener un hijo o al ver la mano extendida de un amigo; sin duda alguna cada uno de ellos feneció o habrá de fenecer. Pero en el amor o en la muerte buscar ser original es como intentar mojarse al estar bajo la lluvia. Que conste también, muchos lo intentan. Es porque ser uno mismo es a un tiempo lo más difícil y lo más fácil del mundo: es fácil porque qué otra cosa puede ser uno que no sea uno mismo; es difícil porque casi nadie lo logra plenamente.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSe es original, inevitablemente, cuando se es uno mismo, dada la obvia irrepetibilidad de cada quien. Pero veo pocas cosas tan universales como el amor o la muerte y entonces, quizá paradójicamente, ante ellos solo puede decirse la misma cosa. Se termina descubriendo, pues, que lo propio es lo de todos.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003emanuel arce arenales\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e: Oscar Castañeda Taracena was born in Guatemala, and studied Phyisics in Cincinnati. 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