As a person who writes, but very especially as a person who reads, I feel that we are the books that we have read and that have left traces in us. At times those early stories speak through us; those stories are there latent, like seeds that reproduce throughout the world. In the case of Ramos Sucre, a highly educated man who had one of the most complete libraries for the time in Cumaná, it was inevitable that famous stories and authors would echo in him and in his own work. Sometimes the play with intertextuality is as evident as traces in the sand, but other times it is imperceptible air, hence the difference of a good reader. Thank you for sharing an excellent post, with an interesting subject and an unmatched poet, @josemalavem.