There was a well-known Spanish writer who once stated that God created the cat so that men could caress a panther. Following the thread of this meritorious reasoning, it could also be suggested that God's work went even further, in his magnanimous creativity, when he also created the Japanese maple, who knows, if with the preconceived idea that every autumn the man could put his hand over the fire without the implicit fear of burning himself.
Adhering to this circumstance and taking advantage of the position offered by this beautiful tree and its proximity to one of the most representative figures in our history, the painter, Francisco de Goya -an extremely lucid person who, paradoxically, lost his mind after dead- it occurs to me that it is as if his statue, located in the heart of the brand new Passage of the Light, without losing sight of the beautiful neoclassical building that is the Prado Museum, was recalling, without flinching, those same incendiary episodes of that Madrid of the year 1808, when the people's rebellion against the invading army of Napoleon, which consecrated him, more than the excellent painter that he already was, an incomparable chronicler of his time.
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