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La dialéctica del olvido y la ruina arquitectónica

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The sumptuous baroque basilica lies consumed by the implacable rust of all-devouring time.
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Where solemn liturgical psalmody once echoed, a lugubrious and desolate silence now reigns.
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Climbing ivies smother the marble cornices, effacing the vestiges of bygone imperial splendor.
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Every attempt at monumental restoration seems doomed to petrify a merely nostalgic anachronism.
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The contemplative stroller discerns in each ruined ashlar the eloquent triumph of universal entropy.
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Stripped of its primal sacredness, architecture is transfigured into a silent witness to human vanitas.
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It proves futile to bewail the decay of walls when history itself demands their incessant transmutation.
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In the crevices of eroded stone, an imperishable crepuscular beauty paradoxically germinates.
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Embracing the fleetingness of human creations mitigates anguish before the inescapable frailty of the flesh.
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The ruin does not attest to a failure, but rather to the apotheosis of matter returned to primal cosmic chaos.

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