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(CNN Spanish) -
A mirror can be as dangerous as a loaded gun.
Or as comforting as a hug.
A hug from your son or your grandson.
Seeing yourself reflected in the pupil of others, too.
Rarely does one coincide so much with a guest on the show, even though we've only seen each other a couple of times and both times in a television studio.
One in Havana, in which an inquisitor prohibited me from interviewing him.
The other, in Miami, when, under a downpour, he arrived on time to be interviewed.
He is from the vintage of '63 and I am of '62.
I come from Cuba and he from Argentina.
When Fito Páez first appeared in Havana in 1987, more than a breath of fresh air, he looked like a runaway comet.
Not even Gorbachev would bring with him so much speed, so much air of change, so much smell of fresh cement.
Nobody knew where to put Fito.
And so many years later, no one knows where all that is so close to a good and necessary promise.
"Anything you say is unnecessary" - Fito Páez
The defeat is not explained.
Not hopelessness.
The trains left.
They strayed.
Also, who can explain what is happening?
»What happened in the world that became such a policeman?»
- Fito Páez
He is from the vintage of '63 and I am of '62.
And we've both seen the world accelerate to paroxysm and insanity.
Boat adrift and without a single lighthouse functioning as God intended.
And yet, I think he also believes that you have to continue traveling.
Until arriving at Ithaca.
And apart from the Cyclops.
Continue, without asking anyone's permission, even if Argos has died;
as sick and neglected dogs die.
Go on, even if Ithaca has been wiped off all the maps.
We have to keep going.
Fito Paez
