The Fountain - La fuente - 泉
The Fountain Every morning, as he passed the fountain, he stopped for a few moments and became oblivious to everything around him. From a window, a little Japanese girl watched him attentively, and he was realizing that she was watching him. So day after day, year after year. He grew old, and the little Japanese girl became a beautiful young woman. One day they crossed paths in the street. Their glances met and she suddenly asked him: "Why do you stop every day in front of the beautiful fountain on the corner?" "One day, my wife died at the foot of that fountain. Every day, one of the nymphs in that fountain tells me how she is. Thus, every day, she gives me a reason to live, and every morning I find in her words the love she has always given me." Moved by that love story, two tears welled up in the young Japanese woman's eyes, which he hastened to wipe with a handkerchief. From that day on, he confided in her about his life with his wife. From th...