Before Night Falls
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1:06:00
Este es Reinaldo Arenas,
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un pájaro que agarramos
ahí en el parque.

1:06:08
Dale! Dale!
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Dale, coño!
Dale!

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Ya vas a ver
lo que es bueno.

1:06:15
Vas a ver lo que es bueno
ahí adentro.

1:06:33
I arrived at El Morro not
as a political prisoner

1:06:36
or writer,
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but with an infamous
reputation as a rapist,

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a murderer,
and a CIA agent.

1:06:50
a supernatural air
of nonchalance

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and gave me an aura
of danger and respectability

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among the real murderers,
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real rapists,
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and common criminals
who would kill each other

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for the slightest reason.
1:07:21
Skies lit by bolts
of lightning

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were replaced
by electric lights

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that blinked on and off
with regularity,

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killing the possibility
or chance that I might dream

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or forget where I was.
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I thought here
I could go unnoticed.

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But prisoners are those
beings that know everything,

1:07:41
especially about
other prisoners.

1:07:55
Soon they knew,
maybe from the guards,

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or the warden himself,
or a killer named Torre,


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