"It is not that what is past casts…" — Walter Benjamin

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No es que lo pasado arroje su luz sobre lo presente ni lo presente su luz sobre lo pasado sino que la imagen es aquello en lo que lo que ha sido se une de un relámpago con el ahora para formar una constelación.

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