Whoever has read Martí’s immense journalistic work and is capable of taking it in in a single act of internal visualization will understand that he is as close as possible to having a human idea of Creation’s vastness. The vision that has been capable of seeing or imagining with so much precision that enormous mass of circumstances, events, characters, spectacles, dramas, disasters and alleluias of human beings, that monstrous royal parade that Rimbaud symbolically reduced in one of his “illuminations,” that incomparable mirror of the planet’s world life during the 10 most intense years of Martí’s journalistic activity, is a vision that – like that of Shakespeare, Goethe, Whitman or Claudel, but not applicable to imagination but rather to reality - in some way humanly represents what we conceive as omniunderstanding and avenging characteristic of the Father. It is presided over by a double sign: the scale in the trial; the expansion in the impulse. Like the paternal sun, which comes out for the good and for the bad, giving them all the same opportunity to excel and redeem themselves, magnanimously illuminating all of them in their sins and in their virtues, thus Martí’s vision as a journalist – in...