THE PEARL FISHERMAN by Luis Benitez
This evening and part of the night I sank again into the dense sea where we beings and things float. I descended for pearls to show to men who fear even the risk of the border. This evening and part of the night I was amidst that silence, in that deepness where the most infinite pleasure would be dissolving and I knew that on all roads there are monsters for those who fear them. Swimming I arrived where there is no love or hatred, you simply float over an eternal present and everything you regard is your contemporary:: nothing else is carried by the tides. I took this pearl and now offer it to you. But when I have wanted to return, I saw no man on the border. I didn't see the border. All is the sea. Those who fear the border do not know they are walking on the sea.
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