tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65040304543455988202024-02-20T20:06:34.942-08:00memo.vader´s blogmemo.vaderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607701572248411347noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504030454345598820.post-7143514958522883452012-02-14T11:43:00.000-08:002012-02-14T11:43:58.139-08:00In hiding - Traducción Español Pearl Jam<div style="color: white;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.07348428169577548" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>IN HIDING </b></span></div><div style="color: white;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.07348428169577548" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I shut and locked the front door</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No way in or out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I turned and walked the hallway</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And pulled the curtains down</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I knelt and emptied the mouth of every plug around</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But nothing's sound, nothing's sound</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'd stay but my last step left me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ignored all my rounds</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Soon I was seeing visions and cracks along the walls</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They were upside down</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I swallow my words to keep from lying</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I swallow my face just to keep from biting, I, I..</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I swallowed my breath and went deep, I was diving, diving</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I surfaced when all of my being was enlightened</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm in hiding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm in hiding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm in hiding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm in hiding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It's been about three days now</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Since I've been aground</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No longer overwhelmed and it seems so simple now</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It's funny when things change so much</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It's all state of mind</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I swallowed my words to keep from lying</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I swallowed my face just to keep from biting I, I...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I swallowed my breath and went deep, I was diving, I was diving</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I surfaced and all off my being was enlightened</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now I'm in hiding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm in hiding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm in hiding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm in hiding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm in hiding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm in hiding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm in hiding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm in hiding</span></div><div style="color: white;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: white;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">OCULTANDOSE</span></b></div><div style="color: white;"><br />
</div><div style="color: white;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.07348428169577548" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cerré y le puse candado a la puerta delantera</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">no hay forma de salir o entrar</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Volteé y recorrí el pasillo</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">y bajé todas las cortinas</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me arrodillé y quité todas las conexiones</span><span style="background-color: #444444;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pero nada suena, nada suena.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me quedaría pero mi último paso me dejó</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ignoró todas mis vueltas</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pronto ya estaba viendo visiones y grietas en las paredes...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">estaban al revés.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me trago mis palabras para abstenerme de mentir</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me trago mi cara solo para abstenerme de morder</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me tragué mi aliento y fui profundo, estaba buceando, buceando</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Salí a la superficie cuando todo mi ser estaba iluminado</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me estoy ocultando</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me estoy ocultando</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me estoy ocultando</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me estoy ocultando</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ya han sido unos 3 días</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">desde que he estado varado</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ya no estoy abrumado y parece tan simple ahora</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">es gracioso como las cosas cambian tanto</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">todo es el estado mental</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me trago mis palabras para abstenerme de mentir</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me trago mi cara solo para abstenerme de morder</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me trago mi aliento y fui profundo, estaba buceando, buceando</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Salí a la superficie cuando todo mi ser estaba iluminado</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me estoy ocultando</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me estoy ocultando</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me estoy ocultando</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me estoy ocultando</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me estoy ocultando</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me estoy ocultando</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me estoy ocultando</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me estoy ocultando</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>memo.vaderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607701572248411347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504030454345598820.post-31407361463885218072012-02-13T10:03:00.000-08:002012-02-13T10:03:25.035-08:00Off he goes - Se va (Pearl Jam traducción)<div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.7298881330644755" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>OFF HE GOES </b></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.7298881330644755" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Know a man...his face seems pulled and tense...</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Like he's riding on a motorbike... in the strongest winds</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So I approach with tact... suggest that he should relax...</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But he's always moving much too fast...</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Said he'll see me on the flipside... of this trip he's taken for a ride</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He's been takin'... too much on... off he goes</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With his perfectly... unkept clothes... there he goes...</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He's yet to come back...but I've seen his picture</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Doesn't look the same up on the rack...we go way back...</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I wonder bout his insides...</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Its like his thoughts are too big for his size</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He's been taken... where? I don't know... off he goes</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With his perfectly... unkept hope... there he goes...</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And now I rub my eyes... for he has returned</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For he still smiles... and he's still strong</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nothing's changed, but the surrounding bullshit... that has grown</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And now he's home... and we're laughing...</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">like we always did... my same old... same old friend</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Until a quarter-to-ten... I saw the strain creep in...</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He seems distracted and I know just what is gonna happen next</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Before his first step... he is off again</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b> SE VA</b></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Conozco a un hombre ... su cara parece estirada y tensa ...</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black; margin: 0pt -45pt 0pt -43.5pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">como si cómo si montara una moto ... dentro de los vientos más fuertes</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">así que me acerco con tacto ... sugiero que debe relajarse ...</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pero él siempre se mueve demasiado rápido ...</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -45pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dijo que me va a ver a la vuelta ... del viaje que ha tomado </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -45pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">esta hablando ... demasiado ... allá se va</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">con su perfecta ... ropa descuidada ... ahí va ...</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">El está por regresar ... pero he visto su foto</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No parece lucir de la misma forma ... vamos camino de regreso ...</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Me pregunto acerca de su </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">interior</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">...</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">es cómo si sus pensamientos fueran demasiado grandes para su tamaño</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">se ha ido ... ¿dónde? No lo sé ... allá se va</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">con su perfectas... esperanzas incumplidas ... ahí va ...</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Y ahora me froto los ojos ... porque él ha vuelto</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">parece que mis preconcepciones hayan sido consumadas</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">él todavía sonríe ... y es todavía fuerte</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nada ha cambiado, pese a la mierda que lo rodea ... esa ha crecido</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Y ahora está en casa ... y nos reímos ...</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">como siempre lo hacíamos ... el mismo ... amigo de siempre</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hasta el cuarto para las diez ... vi algo raro en el..</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">parecía distraído y sabía exactamente lo que va a ocurrir a continuación</span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Antes de su primer paso ... el se marchó nuevamente.</span></div><div style="color: black;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>memo.vaderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607701572248411347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504030454345598820.post-46621437009484985942011-10-13T08:07:00.000-07:002011-10-13T16:49:02.608-07:00Hear the wind sing - Haruki Murakami<div style="text-align: justify;">Hola a tod@s, pues sólo para aportar algo más a la escritura de este buen autor, aquí les dejaré la traduccion(gradual) del PRIMER libro de Murakami. Para aquellos amantes/amigos/fans boys de este autor lo apreciarán más a fondo, ya que como saben este libro fue escrito en las entrañas del establecimiento de Murakami. Cómo muchos de Uds. sabrán, en el Bar de Jazz que en algún momento administraba Murakami. Adjunto foto tomada/prestada de algún otro blog, el cual narra que despúes de leer los libros de este autor, -cosa maravillosa lo que hacen los autores de culto, desplazarte a sus lugares de origen; tomó su cámara y se lanzó a buscar el génesis de Haruki.<br /><br />Para los seguidores de Murakami esta foto vale todo el oro y los diamantes del mundo.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4n9HPkBcm-YIDNFJz79Y8yZcstGDZscCIuz7h4eC5vHFOURXrfwtr0vYRLWfm0ehEUulZA_yeX89zFIN2_Bk_-_k721L71IaKb1lMRcutk6YsPeq9Q2aezZhACgFc_dzBXLrHiUv0eow/s1600/clubJazz.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4n9HPkBcm-YIDNFJz79Y8yZcstGDZscCIuz7h4eC5vHFOURXrfwtr0vYRLWfm0ehEUulZA_yeX89zFIN2_Bk_-_k721L71IaKb1lMRcutk6YsPeq9Q2aezZhACgFc_dzBXLrHiUv0eow/s400/clubJazz.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662995589410493890" border="0" /></a><br /><br />El libro en japonés tiene por nombre 風の歌を聴け<i> (Kaze no uta o kike</i>) y fue escrito en 1979. Traducida al inglés por Alfred Birnbaum bajo el título de <i>Hear the Wind Sing</i> (1987). Bueno dejemos la entrada finalizada y comencemos con el texto.<br /><br /><br /><i style="font-weight: bold;">Hear the Wind Sing</i><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (1987).</span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">"No hay</span> <span class="hps">tal cosa como</span> <span class="hps">la escritura</span> <span class="hps">perfecta</span><span class="">.</span> <span class="hps">Al igual que</span> <span class="hps">no hay</span> <span class="hps">tal cosa como la</span> <span class="hps">perfecta</span><span class="hps"> desesperación.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> Un escritor</span>, el cual <span class="hps">tuve la oportunidad de</span> conocer <span class="hps">cuando yo estaba en</span> <span class="hps">la universidad,</span> <span class="hps">me lo dijo</span> <span class="hps">una vez.</span> <span class="hps">Fué</span> mucho tiempo despúes <span class="hps">que</span> <span class="hps">me había percatado de</span> <span class="hps">el verdadero significado de</span> <span class="hps">esas palabras</span><span class="">,</span> <span class="hps">pero por lo menos ahora era </span><span class="hps">capaz de encontrar</span> <span class="hps">algún consuelo en</span> ella<span class="hps">.</span> <span class="hps">Que no hay</span> <span class="hps">tal cosa como la</span> <span class="hps">perfecta</span><span class="hps"> escritura.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps">De todos modos,</span> <span class="hps">cuando se trataba de</span> <span class="hps">conseguir algo</span> <span class="hps">por escrito</span><span class="">, siempre caía en la</span><span class="hps"> desesperación.</span> <span class="hps">El</span> <span class="hps">alcance de mi</span> <span class="hps">capacidad</span> <span class="hps">era demasiado</span> <span class="hps">limitada.</span> <span class="hps">Incluso si</span><span class="hps"> podría escribir</span><span class="">, por ejemplo,</span> <span class="hps">los elefantes</span><span class="">,</span> <span class="hps">yo que probablemente no</span> <span class="hps">podría ni siquiera haber escrito</span> algo<span class="hps"> al respecto</span><span class="hps"> de los entrenadores</span> <span class="hps">de elefantes</span><span class="">.</span> Así era<span class="">.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps">Durante ocho</span> <span class="hps">años he sido</span> <span class="hps">atrapado en</span> <span class="hps">éste dilema</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps">y ocho años</span> <span class="hps">es mucho tiempo</span><span class="">.</span><span class="hps"> Por supuesto,</span> <span class="hps">estarás</span> <span class="hps">diciendo que hay</span> <span class="hps">algo</span> <span class="hps">que aprender después de</span><span class="hps"> todo, y</span> <span class="hps">envejecer</span> <span class="hps">no</span> <span class="hps">debería ser tan difícil</span><span class="">.</span> <span class="hps">Esa es la</span> <span class="hps">tendencia general</span><span class="">.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps">Desde que</span> <span class="hps">cumplí veinte años</span><span class="">, he tratado de</span> <span class="hps">mantenerme en esa</span> <span class="hps">filosofía como parte de la vida.</span> <span class="hps">Gracias</span><span class="hps"> a la que</span> cual <span class="hps">he</span> <span class="hps">sido tratado</span> a <span class="hps">golpes,</span> <span class="hps">engañado</span> <span class="hps">e incomprendido una </span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">infinidad de veces</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">o</span> <span class="hps">tan a menudo</span> <span class="hps">me metí en</span> <span class="hps">las más extrañas</span> <span class="hps">situaciones</span><span> . T</span><span class="hps">odo tipo </span><span class="hps">de personas han venido</span> <span class="hps">a mi a </span><span class="hps">contarme sus</span> <span class="hps">aventuras</span><span class="">, caminando</span> <span class="hps">por encima de mím</span> <span class="hps">como si</span> <span class="hps">yo fuera un</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">puente</span><span class="">, después nunca regresaban</span><span class="hps">.</span> <span class="hps">Todo el tiempo</span> <span class="hps">mantuve la boca cerrada</span> <span class="hps">y</span> sin decir</span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">nada.</span> <span class="hps">Así es como</span> <span class="hps">llegué</span> <span class="hps">a</span> <span class="hps">mis</span> <span class="hps">treinta años</span><span>.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps">Ahora</span> <span class="hps">creo que estoy</span> <span class="hps">listo para hablar.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps">Por supuesto</span> <span class="hps">que aún no</span> <span class="hps">he llegado a</span> <span class="hps">una solución única para</span> <span class="hps">cualquier cosa.</span> A estas alturas<span>,</span> <span class="hps"> el tiempo pasa</span><span class="hps"> por</span> <span class="hps">hablar</span><span> y las cosas podrían</span> <span class="hps">ser diferentes</span> <span class="hps">de</span> <span class="hps">cuando</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">empecé.</span> <span class="hps">Todo esto lleva</span> <span class="hps">a fin de cuentas</span><span>, a que la escritura</span> <span class="hps">no es</span> <span class="hps atn">medio de auto-</span><span>ayuda.</span> <span class="hps">Es</span> <span class="hps">escasamente un</span> <span class="hps atn">intento de auto-</span><span>ayuda.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps">Aún así, es</span> <span class="hps">muy</span> <span class="hps">difícil decir</span> <span class="hps">las cosas</span> <span class="hps"> honestamente.</span> <span class="hps">Siendo</span> <span class="hps">más</span> <span class="hps">honesto de lo que puedo ser, </span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">las palabras</span> correctas <span class="hps">retroceden en la distancia</span><span>.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps">No me refiero</span> <span class="hps">a racionalizar</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">pero por lo menos</span> <span class="hps">la escritura</span> <span class="hps">es mi</span> <span class="hps">mejor regalo</span><span>. </span>No <span class="hps">hay</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">nada más que decir</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Y sin embargo,</span> <span class="hps">me pongo a pensar</span> <span class="hps">que si</span> <span class="hps">todo va bien,</span><span class="hps"> en algún momento</span> <span class="hps">despuése</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">años, quizás décadas</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">a partir de ahora</span><span>, yo</span> <span class="hps">podría descubrir</span><span> por fin</span><span class="hps"> que</span> <span class="hps">estos esfuerzos han sido</span> <span class="hps">mi salvación</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Entonces,</span> <span class="hps">aquí</span><span class="hps">,</span> <span class="hps">los elefantes</span><span class="hps"> volverán de </span><span class="hps">las llanuras</span> <span class="hps">y</span> <span class="hps">expondré</span> <span class="hps">una visión con las </span><span class="hps">palabras más bellas</span><span>.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">He</span> <span class="hps">aprendido mucho</span> <span class="hps">sobre la escritura</span> <span class="hps">de</span> <span class="hps">Derek</span> <span class="hps">Heartfield</span><span>, </span><span class="hps">tal vez</span> <span class="hps">casi</span><span class="hps"> todo.</span> <span class="hps">Por desgracia</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">Heartfield</span> <span class="hps">fue</span> <span class="hps">en todos los sentidos</span> <span class="hps">de la palabra,</span> <span class="hps">un</span> <span class="hps">desperdicio</span> de <span class="hps">talento.</span> <span class="hps">Léelo</span><span class="hps"> y</span> <span class="hps">lo descubrirás.</span> <span class="hps">Su estilo</span> <span class="hps">es difícil,</span> <span class="hps">las</span> <span class="hps">historias imposibles</span><span>, los</span><span class="hps"> temas</span> <span class="hps">infantiles</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Sin embargo, fue</span> <span class="hps">uno de</span> <span class="hps">los</span> <span class="hps">pocos escritores</span> <span class="hps">distinguidos por </span><span class="hps">una</span> <span class="hps">capacidad de crear</span> <span class="hps">una buena batalla</span> <span class="hps">con las palabras.</span> <span class="hps">Un contemporáneo de</span> <span class="hps">Hemingway</span><span class="">,</span><span class="hps"> Fitzgerald,</span> <span class="hps">y sobre la multitud</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">Heartfield</span> <span class="hps">fue</span> <span class="hps">en mi opinión</span> <span class="hps">nada menos que un</span> <span class="hps">"luchador"</span><span class="hps"> de aquellos.</span> </span> Es precisamente ese derecho lo que lo llevó a su fin, Heartfield nunca se hizo una idea clara de cómo deberían haber peleado. En última instancia, es un despilfarro de su talento .<br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps">Durante ocho</span> <span class="hps">años y dos meses</span> <span class="hps">luchaba</span> <span class="hps">en</span> <span class="hps">vano</span><span>,</span> entonces <span class="hps">murió.</span> <span class="hps">Un </span><span class="hps">Domingo por la mañana</span><span class="">, en junio</span> <span class="hps">de 1938</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">un retrato de</span> <span class="hps">Hitler</span> <span class="hps">apretado en</span> <span class="hps">su mano derecha y</span><span class="hps"> un paraguas abierto</span> <span class="hps">en la izquierda,</span> <span class="hps">saltó de</span> <span class="hps">la parte superior del</span> <span class="hps">Empire State Building.</span><span class="hps"> Fue tan inadvetida su muerte como lo fue su</span><span class="hps"> vida.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> Fue durante</span> <span class="hps">las vacaciones de verano</span> <span class="hps">en mi</span> <span class="hps">tercer año de</span> <span class="hps">secundaria</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps">y</span> <span class="hps">debía</span> <span class="hps">que</span><span class="hps"> bajar con</span> <span class="hps">una erupción</span> <span class="hps">terrible en</span> <span class="hps">mi entrepierna</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps">cuando</span> <span class="hps">una palabra</span> <span class="hps">impresionante</span> de</span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">Heartfield</span> <span class="hps">encontró su camino dentro de </span><span class="hps">mi.</span> <span class="hps">El</span> <span class="hps">tío que me</span> <span class="hps">había dado </span><span class="hps">el</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">libro</span>, <span class="hps">desarrolló cáncer</span> <span class="hps">intestinal</span><span>, tres años después</span> <span class="hps">murió con un</span><span class="hps"> dolor insoportable</span><span>,</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">todas sus entrañas</span><span class="hps"> cortadas en pedazos</span> <span class="hps">y</span> <span class="hps">las tuberías de plástico</span> <span class="hps">se empujaron</span> <span class="hps">dentro y fuera de</span> <span class="hps">su cuerpo</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">La</span><span class="hps"> última vez</span> <span class="hps">que lo vi</span><span class="">, él estaba</span> <span class="hps">arrugado</span>,<span class="hps"> oscuro y rojo</span> <span class="hps">como un</span> <span class="hps">viejo mono</span> <span class="hps">astuto.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> En total,</span> <span class="hps">tuve tres</span> <span class="hps">tíos,</span> <span class="hps">uno de ellos murió</span> <span class="hps">en las afueras de</span> <span class="hps">Shanghai</span><span class="">.</span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> Dos días después del</span> cese<span class="hps"> al fuego,</span> <span class="hps">pisó una mina</span> <span class="hps">que él mismo había</span> <span class="hps">cavado</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Mi único</span><span class="hps"> tío en</span> <span class="hps">sobrevivir</span> <span class="hps">se ha convertido en</span> <span class="hps">un</span> <span class="hps">prestidigitador</span> <span class="hps">que recorre</span> <span class="hps">hoteles</span><span class="hps"> en todo</span> <span class="hps">Japón.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> Heartfield</span> <span class="hps">tiene su propia forma de decir acerca</span><span class="hps">de</span> <span class="hps">la buena escritura</span><span>:</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">La tarea de escribir</span> <span class="hps">consiste </span><span class="hps">principalmente</span> <span class="hps">en el reconocimiento de</span> <span class="hps">la distancia</span> <span class="hps">entre uno mismo</span> <span class="hps">y las cosas</span> <span class="hps">que lo rodean.</span><span class="hps"> No es</span> <span class="hps">la sensibilidad</span> lo <span class="hps">que se necesita</span><span>, sino su</span> <span class="hps">criterio</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>(What's So Bad About Feeling</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span>Good?, 1936).</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> </span><span class="hps"> En mi caso</span><span>, tenía que</span> <span class="hps">haber sido el año</span> <span class="hps">del presidente Kennedy</span> <span class="hps">murió para que yo</span> <span class="hps">llevara una</span> <span class="hps">en la mano y</span> <span class="hps">empezara a revisar</span> <span class="hps">las cosas</span> <span class="hps">siempre</span> <span class="hps">con precaución.</span> <span class="hps">De esto ya hace</span><span class="hps"> quince años</span> <span class="hps">atrás, y</span> <span class="hps">en</span> <span class="hps">esos quince</span> <span class="hps">años, he</span> <span class="hps">lanzado</span> <span class="hps">a cabo</span> <span class="hps">toda una</span> <span class="hps">variedad de cosas</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Al igual que cuando</span> <span class="hps">un avión</span> <span class="hps">tiene</span> <span class="hps">problemas con el motor</span> <span class="hps">y empiezan a</span> <span class="hps">que</span> <span class="hps">lanzar</span> <span class="hps">el</span> <span class="hps">equipaje</span> <span class="hps">para reducir el peso</span><span>, entonces</span> <span class="hps">los asientos,</span> <span class="hps">y, finalmente,</span> <span class="hps"> </span><span class="hps">incluso</span> <span class="hps">tiran los</span><span class="hps"> asistentes de vuelo</span><span class="">.</span> <span class="hps">Durante estos</span> <span class="hps">quince años he</span> <span class="hps">arrojado</span> <span class="hps">todo tipo</span><span class="hps"> de cosas</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">pero tomadas</span> de la<span class="hps"> </span><span class="hps">nada</span><span>.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> </span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps">No estoy</span> <span class="hps">del todo seguro de</span> <span class="hps">que era lo</span> <span class="hps">correcto.</span> <span class="hps">Sin duda,</span> <span class="hps">han hecho</span> <span class="hps">mi carga </span><span class="hps">más fácil de soportar</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">pero las perspectivas son</span> <span class="hps">muy</span> <span class="hps">aterrador</span><span>as:</span> <span class="hps">en la vejez</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">cuando llega el momento</span><span class="hps"> de morir</span><span>, ¿qué diablos</span> <span class="hps">va a</span> <span class="hps">quedar</span> <span class="hps">de mí?</span> <span class="hps">Después de mi</span> <span class="hps">cremación</span> <span class="hps">que no habrá</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">un hueso</span> <span class="hps">restante.</span><span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Para aquellos de</span> <span class="hps">espíritu</span> <span class="hps">sombrío</span> <span class="hps">vienen</span> <span class="hps">sólo</span> <span class="hps">sueños</span> <span class="hps">sombríos</span><span>.</span><span>"</span> <span class="hps">Eso es lo que</span> <span class="hps">mi</span><span class="hps"> abuela</span> <span class="hps">siempre decía</span><span>.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">La noche</span> <span class="hps">en que murió mi abuela</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">lo primero</span> <span class="hps">que hice fue</span> <span class="hps">cerrarle sus ojos</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Y como</span> dibujando <span class="hps">sus párpados</span> <span class="hps">hacia abajo,</span> <span class="hps">los sueños</span> <span class="hps">de sus</span> <span class="hps">setenta y nueve</span><span class="hps"> años</span> <span class="hps">en silencio</span> se <span class="hps">dispersaron</span> <span class="hps">como una lluvia</span> <span class="hps">de verano</span> <span class="hps">que pasa</span> <span class="hps">en una calle comercial</span><span>,</span><span class="hps"> sin dejar</span> <span class="hps">algo</span> <span class="hps">atrás.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> Un punto más</span> <span class="hps">sobre la escritura.</span> <span class="hps">Y esta</span> <span class="hps">será la última</span><span>.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> Para mí, escribir</span> <span class="hps">es un trabajo</span> <span class="hps">muy duro</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Hay</span> <span class="hps">momentos en los que</span> <span class="hps">me lleva</span> <span class="hps">un </span><span class="hps">sólo mes para escribir</span> <span class="hps">una sola línea.</span> <span class="hps">Otras veces</span> <span class="hps">escribo </span><span class="hps">tres días y tres</span> <span class="hps">noches</span> <span class="hps">seguidas</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">sólo para que</span> <span class="hps">salga</span> <span class="hps">todo mal.</span><span class="hps"> Sin embargo</span><span>, la escritura</span> <span class="hps">también puede ser divertida</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">En comparación con las</span> <span class="hps">enormes dificultad</span>es <span class="hps">de la vida</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">el proceso</span> <span class="hps">de agregarle </span> <span class="hps">significados</span> <span class="hps">a la vida</span> <span class="hps">es del todo</span> <span class="hps">claro proceso de</span><span class="hps"> navegación</span><span>.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> De vuelta en</span> <span class="hps">mi adolescencia</span><span>, ¿lo fue?</span> <span class="hps">Yo estaba</span> <span class="hps">tan sorprendido</span> <span class="hps">al despertar</span> <span class="hps">en esta verdad</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">que</span><span class="hps"> durante una semana</span> <span class="hps">no </span><span class="hps">dije ni una palabra</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Si</span> </span>pusiera la mínima atención a las cosas<span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span>, </span></span>el mundo empezaría a ajustarse a mi voluntad<span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps">o por lo menos</span> <span class="hps">es lo que</span> <span class="hps">parecía</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Todos los </span><span class="hps">valores</span> <span class="hps">cambiarían</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">el paso</span> <span class="hps">del tiempo</span> <span class="hps">cambiaría.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> La captura</span> <span class="hps">se hizo evidente</span><span>, por desgracia</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">mucho más tarde.</span> <span class="hps">Había</span> <span class="hps">estado</span> <span class="hps">una línea de</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">en el medio</span> <span class="hps">de una</span> <span class="hps">página de cuaderno</span><span>, anote</span> <span class="hps">todas las cosas que</span> <span class="hps">había ganado</span> <span class="hps">recientemente</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">a la izquierda</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">y</span> <span class="hps">en el</span> de la <span class="hps">derecha</span> todo lo que <span class="hps">se había ido </span><span class="hps">por el camino</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps">las cosas</span> <span class="hps">que había perdido</span><span>,</span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> cosas que había</span> <span class="hps">aplastado</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">cosas que me</span> <span class="hps">alegraba haberles</span> <span class="hps">perdido el rastro, de</span> <span class="hps">las cosas</span> <span class="hps">que había</span> <span class="hps">sacrificado</span><span>,</span><span class="hps"> cosas que yo había</span> <span class="hps">traicionado</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps">la lista era interminable</span><span>.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> </span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> Un</span> <span class="hps">enorme abismo</span> <span class="hps">que separa</span> <span class="hps">lo que tratamos de</span> <span class="hps">tener en cuenta</span> <span class="hps">y de lo que realmente</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">somos conscientes.</span> <span class="hps">Y</span> <span class="hps">no me importa</span> <span class="hps">que tan larga sea la vara de medir</span><span>, no hay</span> <span class="hps">medición</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">que eliminar</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Lo que puedo</span> <span class="hps">poner aquí</span> <span class="hps">por escrito</span> <span class="hps">asciende solamente a</span> <span class="hps">un catálog. N</span><span class="hps">o es un</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">novela,</span> <span class="hps">ni</span><span class="hps"> literatura</span><span class="">, ni siquiera</span> <span class="hps">arte.</span> <span class="hps">Sólo</span> <span class="hps">un libro de notas con una</span> <span class="hps">línea discontinua</span> <span class="hps">por el</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">centro.</span> <span class="hps">Y tal vez</span> <span class="hps">con una lección o dos</span> <span class="hps">en</span> <span class="hps">algún lugar.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps">Si es</span> <span class="hps">arte o la literatura</span> lo <span class="hps">que está buscando</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">usted haría</span> <span class="hps">bien en leer</span> <span class="hps">lo que los griegos</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">escribieron</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Para que</span> <span class="hps">haya</span> <span class="hps">verdadero arte</span><span class="">, no</span> <span class="hps">necesariamente</span> <span class="hps">tiene haber</span> <span class="hps">esclavitud</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Eso es</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">Así sucedió con</span> <span class="hps">los antiguos griegos</span><span>:</span> <span class="hps">mientras que los arrojaban a los esclavos</span> a <span class="hps">trabajar en el campo</span><span>, preparar</span><span class="hps"> las comidas</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps"> remaron</span> <span class="hps">los barcos</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">los ciudadanos</span> <span class="hps">tomaban</span><span class="hps"> el sol</span> <span class="hps">debajo del</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">Sol mediterráneo,</span> <span class="hps">absorto</span>s <span class="hps">en la composición</span> <span class="hps">poética o</span> <span class="hps">el ejercicio de su</span> <span class="hps">matemática</span><span>.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">Eso es</span> <span class="hps">lo que pasa con</span> <span class="hps">el arte</span><span>.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> Pero existen además <span class="hps">seres humanos que</span> <span class="hps">enraizados</span> <span class="hps">a través de sus</span> <span class="hps">frigoríficos</span> <span class="hps">a las tres de</span> <span class="hps">la</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">mañana,</span> <span class="hps">son incapaces</span> <span class="hps">de escribir</span><span>.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps">Y eso</span> <span class="hps">me incluye a mí</span><span>.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">2.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">Esta historia comienza</span> <span class="hps">el 8 de agosto</span> <span class="hps">de 1970,</span> <span class="hps">y termina</span> <span class="hps">dieciocho días después,</span> <span class="hps">el 26 de agosto</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">del mismo año</span><span>.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">3.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> "Los ricos</span> <span class="hps"> pueden</span> <span class="hps">comer toda la mierda</span><span>!</span><span>"</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps">La</span> <span class="hps">Rata</span> <span class="hps">se volvió hacia mí</span> <span class="hps">y gritó</span> <span class="hps">con tristeza</span><span>, con ambas manos</span> <span class="hps">presionando</span> <span class="hps">sobre el mostrador.</span><span class="hps"> O tal vez</span> <span class="hps">estaba gritando</span> <span class="hps">en el molino de</span> <span class="hps">café</span> <span class="hps">detrás de mí.</span> <span class="hps">La Rata</span> <span class="hps">se sentó al lado de </span><span class="hps">mi</span> <span class="hps">en el mostrador</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">así que realmente</span> <span class="hps">no había ninguna</span> <span class="hps">necesidad de que</span> volteara hacia<span class="hps">e mi</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">dirección.</span> <span class="hps">Pero sea cual sea</span><span>, una vez</span> <span class="hps">que se</span> <span class="hps">desahogabar,</span> <span class="hps">volvía a</span> <span class="hps">saborear</span> <span class="hps">su</span><span class="hps"> cerveza</span> <span class="hps">con su</span> <span class="hps">habitual</span> <span class="hps">expresión de satisfacción</span><span>.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps">Para estar seguro</span><span>, ni un alma</span> <span class="hps">arrebataba su</span> <span class="hps">atención.</span> <span class="hps">El</span> <span class="hps">pequeño bar</span> <span class="hps">estaba lleno,</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">y</span> <span class="hps">quién no</span> <span class="hps">gritaba</span> <span class="hps">tan</span> <span class="hps">fuerte</span> <span class="hps">a</span> <span class="hps">alguien más</span><span>?</span> <span class="hps">Todo el lugar</span> <span class="hps">parecía</span><span class="hps"> como un barco</span> <span class="hps">de pasajeros</span> <span class="hps">a punto de hundirse</span><span>.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Los piojos</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">que</span> <span class="hps">es lo que son</span><span>!</span><span>"</span> <span class="hps">La Rata</span> <span class="hps">sacudió la cabeza</span> <span class="hps">con vehemencia</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">Nada más que</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> vividores <span class="hps">en </span><span class="hps">gran cantidad</span><span class="hps">!</span> <span class="hps">Me da</span> <span class="hps">escalofríos</span> <span class="hps">sólo mirar a</span> <span class="hps">su</span><span class="hps">s caras de ´bolsillo´!</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span></span>.<br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> Yo</span> <span class="hps">puse mi</span> <span class="hps">boca en</span> <span class="hps">el borde de</span> <span class="hps">mi</span> <span class="hps">vaso de cerveza</span> <span class="hps">y en silencio</span> <span class="hps">asintió con la cabeza</span><span class="">.</span> </span>El caso es que la Rata se quedó callado y mirando fijamente a su mano sobre la mesa, girando sus dedos largos, una y otra vez, como si estuviera tostándolos en el fuego. Yo me resigné a mirar al techo. No habría empezando una nueva línea de conversación hasta que había terminado de examinar sus diez dedos en orden. Siempre fue así.<br /><br />Solíamos beber como si estuviéramos poseídos.<span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span> </span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps">En el transcurso de</span> <span class="hps">un</span> <span class="hps">verano</span><span class="hps"> habiamos logrado</span> beber tanta cerveza como <span class="hps">el valor de</span> <span class="hps">una piscina de</span> <span class="hps">veinticinco</span> <span class="hps">metros</span> <span class="hps"> y</span> <span class="hps">comer suficiente</span><span class="hps"> maní</span> <span class="hps">para cubrir el piso</span> <span class="hps">de la barra </span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">del bar de J </span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">con</span> <span class="hps">dos pulgadas de profundidad</span> <span class="hps">con las cáscaras</span> de éstas<span class="hps"> </span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Si no lo hubiéramos</span> <span class="hps">hecho</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">nunca habríamos</span> <span class="hps">sobrevivido a</span> <span class="hps">ese verano</span> <span class="hps">aburrido.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps">Una pintura de</span> <span class="hps">color amarillo nicotina</span> <span class="hps">colgaba</span> <span class="hps">detrás del mostrador</span> <span class="hps">del</span> <span class="hps">Bar</span> de <span class="hps">J</span><span>, y</span> <span class="hps">cuando las cosas se</span><span class="hps"> volvían insoportablemente lentas</span> <span class="hps">mirabamos</span> <span class="hps">esa imagen</span> <span class="hps">durante horas y horas</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">La imagen</span> <span class="hps">era un</span><span class="hps"> patrón</span><span>, algo así como</span> <span class="hps">una prueba de Rorschach</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">en el que</span> <span class="hps">he sido testigo de lo que parecía</span><span class="hps"> ser</span> <span class="hps">dos monos verdes, cara a cara, </span> <span class="hps">lanzándose dos</span> <span class="hps">pelotas de tenis</span> <span class="hps">a través del aire</span> <span class="hps">unos a otros</span><span class="hps">.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">Cuando le dije a</span> <span class="hps">J</span><span>, el barman</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">este</span><span>, hizo una pausa en el tiempo </span><span class="hps">para echar un vistazo</span><span class="">, y luego</span> <span class="hps">vino</span><span class="hps"> de vuelta con una</span> <span class="hps">evasiva</span><span>:,"Bueno,</span> <span class="hps">ahora</span> <span class="hps">que lo dices</span><span>.</span><span>.</span><span>.</span><span>"</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">¿Qué crees que</span> <span class="hps">simboliza</span><span>?</span><span>"</span> <span class="hps">Le pregunté</span><span>.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps atn">"</span><span>El mono</span> <span class="hps">izquierda</span> <span class="hps">eres tú y </span><span class="hps"> el de la derecha</span> soy <span class="hps">yo.</span> <span class="hps">Te estoy</span> <span class="hps">tirando una</span> <span class="hps">botella de cerveza</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">y</span> <span class="hps"> me estás</span> <span class="hps">tirando el</span> <span class="hps">dinero por ello.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">Me bebí</span> <span class="hps">la cerveza</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">muy impresionado.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">"Me dan</span> <span class="hps">escalofríos</span><span>!</span><span>".</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">La Rata</span> <span class="hps"> hizo una señal de afirmación con el dedo </span><span class="hps">y había comenzado</span> <span class="hps">de nuevo.</span> <span class="hps">Estas</span> <span class="hps">diatribas</span><span class="hps"> contra los ricos</span> <span class="hps">no eran</span> <span class="hps">nada nuevo</span> <span class="hps">para Rata</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">y</span><span class="hps"> el</span> <span class="hps">hecho es que en</span><span class="hps"> realidad</span> <span class="hps">los odiaba a </span><span class="hps">ellos.</span> <span class="hps">La propia familia</span> <span class="hps">de Rata</span> <span class="hps">estaba bastante bien</span> a<span class="hps">fuera</span><span>, sin embargo,</span> <span class="hps">cada vez que me</span> lo recordaba<span class="hps">,</span> <span class="hps">su respuesta</span> <span class="hps">debía ser</span><span>: "No</span> <span class="hps">es mi culpa</span><span>.</span><span>"</span> <span class="hps">De vez en cuando</span> <span class="hps">(por lo general</span><span>, cuando</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es">bebía <span class="hps">demasiada cerveza</span><span>)</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">yo le decía</span><span>: "Nah,</span> <span class="hps">es toda tu culpa</span><span>.</span><span>"</span> <span class="hps">Una vez que lo dije</span><span class="hps">,</span> <span class="hps"> me</span> <span class="hps">sentí muy mal</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Porque,</span> <span class="hps">en cierto modo,</span> <span class="hps">Rata</span> <span class="hps">tenía un punto a su favor</span><span>.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>¿Por qué crees</span> <span class="hps">que no puedo soportar</span> <span class="hps">a los ricos</span><span>?</span><span class="">"</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">Esa noche</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">Rata</span> <span class="hps">no se detuvo.</span> <span class="hps">Fue la</span> <span class="hps">primera vez</span> <span class="hps">que lo había hecho </span><span class="hps">en todo este</span> <span class="hps">tiempo</span><span>.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">Negué con la cabeza</span><span>.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps atn"> "</span><span class="">Bueno,</span> <span class="hps">déjame decirte</span><span class="">.</span><span class="">"</span> <span class="hps">Rata fue</span> <span class="hps atn">siempre de <span style="font-style: italic;">"</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;">deja</span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="atn">me-</span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="">dicerte</span><span><span style="font-style: italic;">"</span> algo</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">"Es</span><span class="hps"> porque</span> <span class="hps">los ricos</span> <span class="hps">no se molestan en</span> descifrar <span class="hps">nada.</span> <span class="hps">Tienen que</span> <span class="hps">tener un</span><span class="hps"> linterna y</span> <span class="hps">una</span> <span class="hps">vara de medir</span><span>, incluso</span> <span class="hps">para roer</span> <span class="hps">sus</span> <span class="hps">propios</span> <span class="hps">culos</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps atn">"Díselo</span><span>.</span><span>"</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Sí,</span> <span class="hps">la</span> <span class="hps">gran cantidad de</span> <span class="hps">ellos no tienen</span> <span class="hps">una idea</span> que valga <span class="hps">la pena</span> <span class="hps">en su cabeza</span><span class="">.</span><span class="hps"> Sólo</span> <span class="hps">pretende reflexionar</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">.</span> <span class="hps">.</span> <span class="hps">¿Y sabes</span> <span class="hps">por qué?</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps">"Me tienes.</span><span>"</span></span><br /><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">Debido a que</span> <span class="hps">no es necesario</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Claro,</span> <span class="hps">tienen que usar</span> <span class="hps">un poco la cabeza</span> <span class="hps">para hacerse rico</span><span>s,</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">pero no</span> <span class="hps">con el fin de</span> <span class="hps">mantenerse</span> <span class="hps">rico.</span> <span class="hps">Nada más como</span> <span class="hps">un satélite que </span><span class="hps">necesita de gasolina</span> <span class="hps">para mantenerse</span><span class="hps"> dando vueltas y vueltas</span> <span class="hps">en el mismo lugar</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Pero eso no es</span> <span class="hps">lo que pasa con Ud, o con</span><span class="hps">migo </span><span class="hps">.</span><span class="hps"> Tenemos que</span> <span class="hps">mantener</span> <span class="hps">el ingenio</span> <span class="hps">de nosotros</span> <span class="hps">sólo para vivir</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Tenemos que considerar</span> <span class="hps">todo,</span><span class="hps"> desde</span> <span class="hps">el tiempo de la mañana</span> <span class="hps">hasta el tamaño</span> <span class="hps">del tapón de</span> <span class="hps">la bañera.</span> <span class="hps">¿Estoy en lo cierto</span> <span class="hps">o no lo estoy</span><span class="hps"> ?</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Uh</span><span>-huh</span><span>".</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Usted ve,</span> <span class="hps">eso es lo que</span> <span class="hps">es</span><span>.</span><span>"</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">Cuando</span> <span class="hps">Rata</span> <span class="hps">había</span> <span class="hps">por fin hablado</span><span>, él</span> <span class="hps">sacó</span> <span class="hps">un pañuelo</span> <span class="hps">del bolsillo</span> <span class="hps">y se sonó</span><span class="hps"> la nariz</span> <span class="hps">con fuerza.</span> </span>Cuán en serio fue todo esto, yo no lo pude apreciar.<br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Sin embargo</span><span class="">, todo el mundo</span> <span class="hps">muere a</span><span class="hps">l final",</span> <span class="hps">me aventuré a decir</span><span>.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">Entonces, ¿qué</span> <span class="hps">hay de nuevo?</span> <span class="hps">Todo el mundo</span> <span class="hps">tienes que</span> <span class="hps">morir algún día</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Pero</span> <span class="hps">hasta ese momento</span><span class="hps"> existen unos </span><span class="hps">muy buenos cincuenta años de</span> <span class="hps">vida por hacer</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">y</span> <span class="hps">déjame decirte que</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">cincuenta años</span> <span class="hps">de vida</span><span class="hps"> pensando en otras cosas</span>, con<span class="hps">lleva</span> <span class="hps">un infierno </span><span class="hps">mucho más de</span> <span class="hps">lo</span> <span class="hps">que</span> <span class="hps">viven</span> <span class="hps">cinco</span><span class="hps"> mil años</span> <span class="hps">sin pensar</span> <span class="hps">en absoluto.</span> <span class="hps">¿Estoy en lo cierto</span><span>?</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">. Tuve que admitir</span> <span class="hps">que había</span> <span class="hps">algo de ello </span><span class="hps">allí.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">4.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">Conocí a</span> <span class="hps">Rata t</span><span class="hps">res años antes</span> <span class="hps">de la Primavera</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Ambos habíamos</span> <span class="hps">entrado en</span> <span class="hps">la universidad</span><span class="hps"> ese año</span><span class="">,</span> <span class="hps">y para los dos, eso represento una</span><span class="hps"> sacudidad</span><span class="hps">. </span> <span class="hps">Así que</span> <span class="hps">no tengo absolutamente ninguna</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">recuerdo</span> <span class="hps">lo que</span> <span class="hps">posiblemente</span> <span class="hps">nos podría haber</span> hecho decidir hacer<span class="hps"> juntos</span> un <span class="hps">paseo</span> <span class="hps">a las cuatro de</span><span class="hps"> la mañana en</span> un brillante y negro <span class="hps">Fiat</span> <span class="hps">600 de Rata.</span> <span class="hps">Supongo que</span> <span class="hps">compartíamos un amigo</span> <span class="hps">en común.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">En cualquier caso,</span> <span class="hps">éstabamos en completo estado</span><span class="hps"> de ebriedad,</span> <span class="hps">por lo que </span><span class="hps">el</span> <span class="hps">velocímetro</span> <span class="hps"></span><span class="hps">golpeba</span> los <span class="hps">cincuenta.</span> <span class="hps">¿Qué mejor</span> <span class="hps">razón para</span> <span class="hps">abrirse paso a través</span> <span class="hps">de un arado</span> <span class="hps">del parque</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">arrasar</span><br /><span class="hps">un parche de</span> <span class="hps">azaleas,</span> <span class="hps">y</span> <span class="hps">una cabeza de carnero</span> <span class="hps">en</span> <span class="hps">un poste</span> <span class="hps">de piedra</span><span>?</span> <span class="hps">Y es que no era para menos que para nuestra </span><span class="hps">buena y enorme fortuna</span><span class="hps">,</span> <span class="hps">ninguno de los dos</span> <span class="hps">resultó herido.</span><br /><span class="hps"><br />Cuando mi cabeza</span> se despejó<span class="hps"> de la conmoción</span><span class="hps">,</span> <span class="hps">abrí de una patada</span> <span class="hps">la puerta rota</span> <span class="hps">y</span> <span class="hps">salí</span><span class="hps"></span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">sólo para encontrar que</span> <span class="hps">el capó</span> <span class="hps">había sido arrancado</span><span class="hps"> y aterrizado</span> <span class="hps">diez metros</span><span class="hps"> de distancia</span> <span class="hps">frente a una</span> <span class="hps">jaula de monos.</span> <span class="hps">La</span> <span class="hps">parte delantera del coche</span> <span class="hps">estaba</span> <span class="hps">perfectamente en el contorn</span><span class="hps"></span>o <span class="hps">del poste de </span><span class="hps">piedra</span><span class="">, y los monos</span> <span class="hps">dentro de la jaula</span> <span class="hps">estaban desconcertados</span> <span class="hps">por el brusco despertar.<br /><br /><br /></span> <span class="hps">La Rata</span> se encontraba reacostado <span class="hps"></span><span class="hps">con</span> <span class="hps">las dos manos</span> sobre<span class="hps"> el volante.</span> Sin dolor<span class="hps"> alguno,</span> <span class="hps">depositando los</span><span class="hps"> restos de</span> <span class="hps">la pizza</span> <span class="hps">que había tenido</span> <span class="hps">una hora antes</span> sobre<span class="hps"> el salpicadero</span><span>, me arrastré</span> <span class="hps">hasta</span> <span class="hps">la</span><span class="hps"> parte superior del coche</span> <span class="hps">y miré</span> <span class="hps">a través</span> <span class="hps">del techo corredizo</span> <span class="hps">sobre</span> <span class="hps">el asiento del conductor</span><span class="">.<br /><br /></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps atn">"</span><span>¿Estás bien?</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br />"</span><span class="">Uh</span><span>-huh,</span> <span class="hps">un poco</span> de vino<span>, sin embargo.</span> <span class="hps">Me hizo vomitar</span><span>.</span><span>"<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">¿Puedes salir</span><span>?</span><span>"<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">Vas a tener que</span> <span class="hps">levantarme.</span><span>"</span><br /><br /><span class="hps">Rata</span> <span class="hps">apagó el motor</span><span>, tomó su</span> <span class="hps">paquete de cigarrillos</span> <span class="hps">del tablero de instrumentos</span><span>,</span><br /><span class="hps">los metió</span> <span class="hps">en el bolsillo</span><span>, y luego</span> <span class="hps">sin prisa</span> <span class="hps">me agarró la mano</span> <span class="hps"></span><span class="hps">que estaba a una pulgada arriba</span> <span class="hps">en la</span><br /><span class="hps">coche</span> <span class="hps">techo y subió.</span> <span class="hps">Allí nos sentamos</span> <span class="hps">uno al lado del otro</span> <span class="hps">sobre el techo</span> del <span class="hps">Fiat</span><span>, mirando el</span><span class="hps"> cielo</span> <span class="hps"></span><span class="hps"></span><span class="hps"></span><span>,</span> iniciando su brilllo, <span class="hps">fumando cigarros en silencio</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">No sé</span> <span class="hps">por qué, pero</span> <span class="hps">una</span><span class="hps"> película de guerra protagonizada por</span> <span class="hps">Richard</span> <span class="hps">Burton</span> <span class="hps">me vino a la mente</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">No tengo ni</span> <span class="hps">idea de lo que</span> <span class="hps">Rata</span><br /><span class="hps">estaba pensando.<br /><br /></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">"Hombre</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">la diosa de la Fortuna</span> <span class="hps">seguro</span> <span class="hps">está con nosotros",</span> <span class="hps">fue todo lo que dijo la Rata</span><span class="hps"></span> <span class="hps">cinco minutos más tarde</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">"Quiero decir,</span><span class="hps"> miran</span><span>os.</span> <span class="hps">Ni un rasguño</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">¿Puedes creerlo</span><span>?</span> <span class="hps atn">"<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps">Asentí con la cabeza</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">"El coche</span> <span class="hps">es una ruina</span><span>, sin embargo.</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps"><br />"Oye, no</span> <span class="hps">te preocupes por eso</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps"> Puedes comprar</span> <span class="hps">otro coche</span><span class="">, pero</span> <span class="hps">no se puede comprar</span> a la <span class="hps">Señora </span><span class="hps">Suerte ".<br /><br /></span><span class="hps"> Esto</span> <span class="hps">me desconcertó </span><span class="hps">un poco,</span> <span class="hps">y le</span> <span class="hps">di</span> <span class="hps">a Rata</span> <span class="hps">una mirada.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Eres</span><span class="hps"> rico</span><span>?</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br /> "</span><span class="">Eso parece.</span><span class="">"<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">Bien por ti</span><span>.</span><span>"<br /><br /></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> Rata</span> <span class="hps">no respondió</span><span>, simplemente se</span> <span class="hps">sacudía</span> <span class="hps">la cabeza</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">satisfecho</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>De todos modos</span><span>, estamos</span><br /><span class="hps">montando a caballo</span> <span class="hps">con la Señora Suerte</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="hps atn"><br /><br /> "</span><span class="">Supongo que sí</span><span>.</span><span>"<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps"></span><span class="hps">Rata apagó su</span><span class="hps"> cigarrillo con </span> <span class="hps">la suela de su</span> <span class="hps">zapatilla deportiva</span><span class="">, entonces</span> arrojó la colilla<span class="hps"></span><br /><span class="hps">en la dirección de</span> <span class="hps">la jaula del mono</span><span>.<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Hey</span><span class="">, ¿no</span> <span class="hps">será que nosotros somos</span><span class="hps"></span> <span class="hps">un equipo</span><span>?</span> <span class="hps">Apuesto a</span> <span class="hps">que podemos hacer</span> <span class="hps">grandes cosas".</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br />"¿Como cuanto empezamos?</span><span class="hps"></span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br />"</span><span class="">¿Qué tal</span> <span class="hps">un poco de cerveza</span><span>?</span><span>"<br /><br /><br /></span> <span class="hps">Compramos</span> <span class="hps"></span><span class="hps">media docena de</span> <span class="hps">cervezas</span> <span class="hps">en una máquina expendedora</span> <span class="hps">cercana,</span> caminamos<span class="hps"> a la</span><span class="hps"> playa,</span> nos <span class="hps">tumbamos en</span> <span class="hps">la arena</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">y descansamos</span><span class="hps">.</span> <span class="hps">Entonces</span> <span class="hps">miró a</span><span class="hps"></span><span class="hps">l mar.</span> <span class="hps">Un </span> <span class="hps">maravilloso</span> y claro <span class="hps"></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">día </span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps">iba a ser</span><span>.<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">Puedes llamarme</span> <span class="hps atn">'</span><span>Rata</span><span>'</span><span>", dijo</span><span>.</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br /> "</span><span>¿Cómo</span> <span class="hps">se obtiene un</span> <span class="hps">nombre como ese</span><span>?</span><span>"<br /><br /></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> "Lo olvidé</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Hace mucho tiempo de eso</span><span class="hps"></span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Al principio</span> <span class="hps">odiaba</span> <span class="hps">que se</span> <span class="hps">llama así</span><span>, pero ahora</span><span class="hps"> ni siquiera</span> <span class="hps">pienso en ello.</span> <span class="hps">Uno se acostumbra a</span> <span class="hps">cualquier cosa.</span> <span class="hps atn">"<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps">Tiramos</span> <span class="hps">todas nuestras</span> <span class="hps">latas vacías</span> <span class="hps">dentro del mar,</span> <span class="hps">nos recostamos</span> <span class="hps">en el muelle</span> <span class="hps">y dormimos</span><span class="hps"> durante una hora</span> <span class="hps">con una capa</span> <span class="hps">de lona</span> <span class="hps">tirado</span> <span class="hps">sobre nuestras cabezas.</span> <span class="hps">Cuando me desperté</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">mi cuerpo</span><span class="hps"> estaba llena de</span> <span class="hps">una energía</span> <span class="hps">tan extraña</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Me sentí muy</span> <span class="hps">extraño.<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Apuesto a que</span> <span class="hps">puedo alcanzar</span> los setenta <span class="hps">corriendo</span><span></span><span>" le dije a</span> <span class="hps">Rata.</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br /> "</span><span>Yo también",</span> <span class="hps">dijo Rata</span><span>.<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps">En realidad,</span> <span class="hps">lo que</span> terminamos haciendo<span>,</span> <span class="hps">fue</span> <span class="hps">pagar </span> <span class="hps">al ayuntamiento</span> <span class="hps">por los</span><span class="hps"> daños en el</span> <span class="hps">parque</span> <span class="hps">durante un período</span> <span class="hps">de tres años</span> <span class="hps">con intereses.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> Rata </span><span class="hps">horriblemente</span> <span class="hps">no leía.</span> <span class="hps">De hecho,</span> <span class="hps">nunca lo vi</span> <span class="hps">leer</span> <span class="hps">otra cosa,</span><span class="hps"> tal vez un</span> <span class="hps">periódico deportivo</span> <span class="hps">o</span> <span class="hps">un volante</span> <span class="hps">de correo.</span> <span class="hps">En ocasiones,</span> <span class="hps">cuando yo</span> <span class="hps">estaba leyendo</span> <span class="hps">para matar el tiempo</span><span>, miraba un par de libros</span> <span class="hps">tan desconcertado como</span> <span class="hps">una mosca</span> <span class="hps">en busca</span> <span class="hps">de</span> <span class="hps">un matamoscas</span><span>.<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps">"¿Por qué</span> <span class="hps">lees libros</span><span>?</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps"><br />"¿Por qué</span> <span class="hps">bebes cerveza</span><span>?</span><span>"</span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"></span><span class="hps"><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> Le</span> <span class="hps">respondí a</span> <span class="hps">Rata</span> <span class="hps">entre</span> <span class="hps">alternando</span> <span class="hps">las picaduras</span> <span class="hps">de caballa</span> <span class="hps">en escabeche</span> <span class="hps">y ensalada</span><span>, sin</span><br /><span class="hps">siquiera mirarlo</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Esto</span> <span class="hps">sumió a la</span> <span class="hps">Rata</span><span class="hps"> en sus pensamientos</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Faltaban cinco minutos para</span><br /><span class="hps">que abriera</span> <span class="hps">la boca.</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br /> "</span><span class="">La gran cosa acerca de </span> <span class="hps">la cerveza es que se </span> <span class="hps">puede</span> <span class="hps">mear</span> <span class="hps">todo.</span> <span class="hps">Un out</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">una</span> <span class="hps">base,</span> <span class="hps">doble</span><br /><span class="hps">play.</span> <span class="hps">Por todas partes.</span><span class="hps"></span><span></span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><br /><span class="hps"><br /> Rata</span> <span class="hps">me vio</span> <span class="hps">seguir comiendo</span> <span class="hps">mientras lo decía</span><span>.</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br />"</span><span>¿Por qué</span> <span class="hps">sólo lees</span> <span class="hps">libros?</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps"><br /> Acompañé </span><span class="hps"> la</span> <span class="hps">última pieza</span> <span class="hps">de caballa con</span> <span class="hps">un trago de cerveza</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">y aparté</span> <span class="hps">mi</span><span class="hps"> plato</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">e inicié</span> <span class="hps">a hojear</span> <span class="hps">la copia de</span> E<span class="hps">ducación Sentimental</span> <span class="hps">que estaba a mi</span><span class="hps"> lado.<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Porque</span> <span class="hps">Flaubert</span> <span class="hps">ha muerto,</span> <span class="hps">¿es por eso?</span><span>.</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps"><br /> "¿Tú no lees</span><span class="hps"></span> <span class="hps">libros de autores</span> <span class="hps">vivos?</span><span>"</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"><br /></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps atn"> "</span><span class="">No hay nada</span> <span class="hps">de valor en</span> <span class="hps">los autores vivos</span><span>".<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">¿Cómo es eso</span><span>?</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br /> "</span><span class="">Cuando la gente está</span> <span class="hps">muerta</span><span>, puedes</span> <span class="hps">perdonarles "muchas cosas"</span><span class="hps"></span><span></span><span class="hps"></span><span class="hps">.</span> <span class="hps">Yo hice el </span><span class="hps"></span><br /><span class="hps">final de la conversación</span> <span class="hps">mirando</span> <span class="hps">a través</span> <span class="hps">de</span> <span class="hps">una repetición de</span> <span class="hps">"Route 66", la cual se estaba proyectando</span> <span class="hps">en la televisión</span><span class="hps"> que estaba detrás del mostrador.</span> <span class="hps">Una vez más</span> <span class="hps">Rata</span> <span class="hps">se quedó en silencio</span><span class="">, absorto</span> <span class="hps">en sus pensamientos.<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Entonces,</span> <span class="hps">¿qué hay de</span> <span class="hps">la gente</span> <span class="hps">viva?</span> <span class="hps">No se les puede</span> <span class="hps">perdonar </span><span class="hps"></span><span>"</span><span class="hps">casi cualquier cosa</span><span>?</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br />"</span><span>Me sorprendes</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Nunca lo</span> <span class="hps">pensé seriamente</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Pero si</span> las cosas se agravan<span class="hps"></span><span>, así es como </span><span class="hps">probablemente</span> <span class="hps">se resolvería</span><span class="hps"></span><span class="hps"></span><span>.</span> Solo no tendría fmra de perdonarlos<span class="hps">.</span> <span class="hps atn">"<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps">J</span> <span class="hps">vino</span> <span class="hps">y dejó</span> <span class="hps">otras dos cervezas</span> <span class="hps">en frente de nosotros</span><span>.</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br />"</span><span>Y si no</span> <span class="hps">podría perdonar</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">¿entonces qué?</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps"><br />"Me acurrucaría e</span><span class="hps">n mi</span> <span class="hps">almohada</span> <span class="hps">sólo para</span> <span class="hps">dormir.</span><span>"</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> Rata</span> <span class="hps">sacudió la cabeza</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">mirando positivamente</span> <span class="hps">desconcertado.<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">Que extraño</span> es <span class="hps">eso.</span> <span class="hps">No sé</span> <span class="hps">qué pensar</span><span>.</span><span>", dijo</span> <span class="hps">Rata.<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps">Re</span><span class="hps">llené su vaso</span><span>, pero incluso eso</span> <span class="hps">no rompió</span> <span class="hps">el hilo de su pensamiento</span><span>.<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">¿Cuándo fue</span> <span class="hps">la</span> <span class="hps">última vez que leí</span> <span class="hps">un libro?</span> <span class="hps">Debe haber sido</span> <span class="hps">el verano pasado,</span><span>"</span> <span class="hps"></span>dijo<span class="hps"> Rata</span><span class="hps"></span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">"Olvidé </span><span class="hps">el título</span> <span class="hps">y el autor.</span> <span class="hps">Incluso olvidé</span><span class="hps"></span> <span class="hps">por qué</span> <span class="hps">lo leí</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Pero</span><span class="hps"> de todos modos</span> <span class="hps">se trataba de una</span> <span class="hps">novela, escrita por</span> <span class="hps">una mujer</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">El personaje principal</span> <span class="hps">era una mujer</span><span>, un</span><span class="hps"> famoso diseñador de moda</span><span>, de treinta años</span> <span class="hps">o algo así, y</span> <span class="hps">ella tenía</span> <span class="hps">en la cabeza una de esas</span><span class="hps"> enfermedad</span>es <span class="hps">incurables.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br /> "</span><span>¿Qué clase de</span> <span class="hps">enfermedad?</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps"><br /> "Se me olvidó</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Cáncer</span> <span class="hps">o algo así.</span> ¿Existe algun otra<span class="hps"> enfermedad</span> <span class="hps">incurable</span><span class="hps">?</span><span>.</span><span>.</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Bueno</span><span>, ella se iba a la playa que estaba junto al hotel</span><span class="hps"></span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">y</span> <span class="hps">en un principio se estaba acariciendo asi misma</span><span class="hps">.</span> <span class="hps">En</span><span class="hps"> el baño</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">en el bosque,</span> <span class="hps">en su cama,</span> <span class="hps">en el océano,</span> <span class="hps">todo tipo de lugares</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps atn"> "</span><span>En el océano</span><span>?</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br />"</span><span class="">Uh</span><span>-huh</span><span>.</span><span>.</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">¿Puedes creerlo</span><span>?</span> <span class="hps">Ahora ¿por qué</span> <span class="hps">iba alguien a</span> <span class="hps">escribir una novela</span> <span class="hps">así?</span><span class="hps"> Debe de existirun gran número </span><span class="hps">de cosas mejores</span> <span class="hps">que escribir.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br />"</span><span class="">Se podría pensar</span> <span class="hps">así.</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps"><br />"</span><span class="hps"></span><span class="hps">Novelas</span> como esas<span>,</span> <span class="hps">no gracias</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">No son para mí.</span> M<span class="hps">e provocan ganas de</span> <span class="hps">vomitar.</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps"><br /> Asentí con la cabeza</span><span>.</span><br /><span class="hps"><br /> "A mi </span><span class="hps"> me gustaría escribir</span> <span class="hps">un tipo completamente diferente</span> <span class="hps">de la novela</span><span>.</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br /> "</span><span class="">Como por ejemplo</span><span class="">?</span><span class="">"</span><br /> <span class="hps"><br />Rata</span> <span class="hps">pasó el dedo</span> <span class="hps">por el</span> <span class="hps">borde de su vaso</span> <span class="hps">mientras le daba</span> <span class="hps">vueltas al asunto</span></span> en su pensamiento.<br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">¿Cómo</span> <span class="hps">es esto?</span> <span class="hps">Estoy</span> <span class="hps">en un barco que</span> <span class="hps">se hunde en el</span> <span class="hps">medio del Pacífico</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Ahí estoy yo</span><span class="hps">,</span><span class="hps"> aferrándome a</span> <span class="hps">mi</span> <span class="hps">salvavidas</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">mirando las estrellas</span><span>, flotando</span> <span class="hps">solo en</span> el <span class="hps"></span><span class="hps">mar, anocheciendo.</span> <span class="hps">Una noche</span> <span class="hps">hermosa</span> <span class="hps">y tranquila.</span> <span class="hps">¿Cuando</span> <span class="hps">de reperte ocurrió</span><span class="">?</span> <span class="hps">Una mujer joven,</span> <span class="hps">también</span><span class="hps"> aferrandose a</span> <span class="hps">un salvavidas</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">nadando hacia la </span><span class="hps">nada.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br />"</span><span>Una serie</span> <span class="hps">caliente?</span><span class="">"</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br />"</span><span>¿Qué esperas</span><span>?</span><span>"</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> Tomé un sorbo</span> <span class="hps">de cerveza y</span> <span class="hps">negué con la cabeza</span><span>.</span><br /><span class="hps"><br />"Suena</span> <span class="hps">tonto</span><span class="hps">".</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br />"</span><span class="">Escúchame</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">¿lo harás?</span> <span class="hps">Así que los dos</span> <span class="hps">estamos</span> <span class="hps">hombro</span> <span class="hps">con hombro</span> <span class="hps">flotando</span> sobre <span class="hps"></span><span class="hps">el océano,</span> <span class="hps">sólo</span> <span class="hps">pasando el rato</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">De dónde venimos</span><span>, donde ibamos</span><span class="hps"></span><span class="">, los intereses y</span> <span class="hps">pasatiempos</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">los</span> <span class="hps">socios capitalistas</span> <span class="hps">que habíamos tenido</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">los programas de televisión favoritos</span>,<span> los sueños</span> <span class="hps">de la noche anterior</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">ese tipo de cosas</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Luego, tomamos</span><span class="hps"></span><span class="hps"> un poco de cerveza</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps atn">"<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Hey</span><span>, espera un segundo</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">¿De donde diablos salió la cerveza</span><span class="hps">?</span><span>"<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps">Rata</span> <span class="hps">pensó</span> <span class="hps">un segundo</span><span>.</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br />"</span><span>H</span><span class="hps">abía salido </span><span class="hps">flotando.</span> <span class="hps">Latas</span> <span class="hps">de cerveza de</span> <span class="hps">la cocina</span> <span class="hps">del barco.</span> <span class="hps">Junto con algunas</span><span class="hps"> latas de sardinas</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">¿de acuerdo?</span> <span class="hps atn">"<br /><br /></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps atn"> "</span><span class="">Lo tengo</span><span>".<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps">"Al final</span> <span class="hps">del amanecer</span> <span class="hps">empieza a romper</span><span>.</span><span>"</span> <span class="hps">¿Qué debemos hacer</span><span>?</span> <span class="hps atn"></span><span class="hps">ella me pide</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Creo que voy a</span><span class="hps"> empezar a nadar</span> <span class="hps">hacia</span> <span class="hps">una isla</span> <span class="hps">", dice</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Pero que si</span><span class="hps">no hay</span> <span class="hps">isla?</span> <span class="hps">le digo</span><span>.</span><span class="hps atn"> "</span><span>Creo que</span> <span class="hps">preferiría</span> <span class="hps">quedarme aquí,</span> <span class="hps">flotando y</span> <span class="hps">bebiendo cerveza</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Hay muchas posibilidades de</span> <span class="hps">que pase un</span><span class="hps"> avión de rescate</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Pero ella</span> <span class="hps">decide nadar</span> <span class="hps atn"></span><span>de todos modos.</span><span>"<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps">Rata</span> <span class="hps">suspiró y</span> <span class="hps">tomó un trago</span><span>.</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br />"</span><span>La mujer</span> <span class="hps">nada</span> <span class="hps">durante dos días y</span> <span class="hps">noches</span> <span class="hps">y, finalmente,</span> <span class="hps">llega a</span> <span class="hps">una isla.</span> <span class="hps">Mientras que yo,</span> con<span class="hps"> mi</span> <span class="hps">resaca</span> <span class="hps">habitual</span> observo que <span class="hps">llega un avión</span> a <span class="hps"></span><span class="hps">rescatarme.</span> <span class="hps">Luego</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">unos años </span><span class="hps">más tarde,</span> nosotros<span class="hps"> dos</span> corremos hacia<span class="hps"> un pequeño bar</span> <span class="hps">en</span> <span class="hps">Yamate</span><span class="hps atn">".<br /><br /></span><span class="hps atn"> "</span><span>Y supongo</span> <span class="hps">que ustedes dos beben</span> <span class="hps">un poco de cerveza</span> por <span class="hps">los viejos tiempos</span><span>".<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>¿No es lo que estas buscando</span><span class="hps"></span><span>?</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br />"</span><span>Estoy</span> <span class="hps">quebrado</span><span>", le dije</span><span>.<br /><br /><br /></span> <span class="hps">6.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps"> La novela</span> <span class="hps">de Rata</span> <span class="hps">tiene dos</span> <span class="hps">puntos</span> <span class="hps">a su favor</span><span>: en primer lugar</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">no hay</span> <span class="hps">escena de sexo</span><span>;</span><br /><span class="hps">y en segundo lugar</span><span class="">, nadie</span> <span class="hps">murió</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Abandonado a su</span> <span class="hps">suerte,</span> <span class="hps">un hombre</span> <span class="hps">se acuesta con</span> <span class="hps">la mujer y</span><br /><span class="hps">morira de todos modos</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Esa es la naturaleza</span> <span class="hps">del animal.</span></span><br /><br /><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps atn"> "</span><span class="">Así que</span> <span class="hps">piensas que estaba equivocado</span><span>?</span><span>"</span> <span class="hps">-le preguntó</span><span>.<br /><br /><br /></span> <span class="hps">Rata</span> <span class="hps">tomó un sorbo de</span> <span class="hps">cerveza y</span> <span class="hps">movió lentamente la cabeza</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Bueno,</span> <span class="hps">déjame decirte</span><span>,</span><br /><span class="hps">todo el mundo</span> <span class="hps">está mal ".<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>¿Qué te hace</span> <span class="hps">pensar eso?</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps"><br /> "La urna</span><span class="">",</span> <span class="hps">Rata</span> <span class="hps">se aclaró la</span> <span class="hps">garganta, y luego</span> <span class="hps">pasó la lengua por</span> <span class="hps">los labios</span><span>, y no hubo</span> <span class="hps">respuesta.<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Arranqué mis </span><span class="hps">brazos</span> nadando <span class="hps">tratando de llegar a</span> <span class="hps">esa isla.</span> <span class="hps">Me</span> <span class="hps">dolía tanto</span> <span class="hps">que yo</span><span class="hps"> pensé que iba a morir.</span> <span class="hps">Y</span> <span class="hps">eso no es todo</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">No dejaba de pensar</span> <span class="hps">una y otra vez</span><span>, ¿y si</span> <span class="hps">tal vez</span><span class="hps"> que</span> <span class="hps">tenían razón</span> <span class="hps">y yo estaba equivocado</span><span>?</span> <span class="hps">Aquí</span> <span class="hps">me estaba matando</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">¿por qué sólo fotaba sin</span><span class="hps"></span><span class="hps"> hacer nada</span><span>?</span> <span class="hps atn">"<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps">En eso ella</span> <span class="hps">forzó una</span> <span class="hps">risita</span><span>, y luego</span> <span class="hps">presionó las sienes</span><span class="hps"></span> desanimadamente<span>.</span> <span class="hps">Rata</span><span class="hps"> se tomó</span><span class="hps"> algún tiempo buscando</span> <span class="hps">algo en sus </span><span class="hps">bolsillos.</span> <span class="hps">Era la primeros</span><span class="hps"> vez</span> durante estos <span class="hps">tres años</span> que <span class="hps">quería fumar</span><span></span><span class="hps">.<br /><br /></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="es"><span class="hps atn"> "</span><span class="">¿Te</span> <span class="hps">gustaría</span> <span class="hps">morir</span><span>?</span><span>"<br /><br /></span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">Un poco</span><span>".</span><br /><span class="hps"><br />"Honestamente</span><span>, sólo un poco</span><span>?</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br /> "</span><span class="">...</span> <span class="hps">Se me olvida</span><span>.</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps"><br />Ambos</span> <span class="hps">quedaron en silencio</span> <span class="hps">un rato.</span><span class="hps"> Rata</span> <span class="hps">se sentía como</span> <span class="hps">si tuviera que</span> <span class="hps">decir algo</span><span>.</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br />"</span><span>Oye,</span> <span class="hps">no todos los hombres</span> <span class="hps">son creados iguales</span><span>, ya sabes.</span><span>"</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br />"</span><span>¿Quién lo dice</span><span class="">?</span><span class="">"</span><br /><span class="hps atn"><br />"</span><span>John</span> <span class="hps">F.</span> <span class="hps">Kennedy</span><span>.</span><span>"</span></span><br /><br /><br />FIN.<br /><br /></div><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 196px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5wM3YpmcrfNCKWvOhcKwOrBm8rWa5kYYeqqMhlVnSrglvdB4NLVWatkSiq_1vdlopwbWAGZvWCw2J6S605ts6Pw15AweUx3z97DFD7-1pSBtklFvERx0iZXWVWHIAnjCaA7rC1GL1jgo/s400/Screen+Shot+2011-10-13+at+6.43.46+PM.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663126852663325026" border="0" />memo.vaderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607701572248411347noreply@blogger.com