cuentos de barro - DSpace Universidad Don Bosco

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Se quedó allí mientras se curaba. Había
pasado una goma feya, que le bajó con
chaparro. Con la sobada130 que le dio en la
pierna, bajó la hinchazón. Podía apenas
dar pasitos, renqueando y quejándose.
Pasaba todo el día tirada boca arriba en
la cama, descalza su blancura y triste
el negror de sus ojos que le sonreiban
agradecidos. Se dormía, se dormía..., y
él la veiya desde el taburete131 , medio
envuelta en el perraje, con el pelo en
la cara, acuchuyada toda ella, dándole
el redondo de su cuerpo con un
abandono que le hacía temblar y herver.
Cuando estaba projunda, él se acercaba
y se inclinaba. Guelía ansina como una
jlor de no sé qué, con un perjume que
mareya y que da jiebre. Pero Polo sabía,
en su sencilla nobleza de irnorante, que
nuay que conjundir la caridá...
—Usté, ¿dióndés?
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—¿Yo?..., de la capital...
—¿Por qué la embolaron y
larronjaron?...
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She stayed at his house while she
healed. She had a horrible hangover
that she tried to cure with more
moonshine, the hair of the dog that bit
her. The swelling came down after he
massaged 132 her leg. At first, she could
only take small steps, limping and
moaning. Most of the day she spent on
her back in bed, with her pale barefeet
exposed, and the sad blackness of
her eyes smiled thankfully. She slept,
and slept... From his taboret 133 he
watched her, half covered with colorful
patchwork blankets, her hair covering
her face, curled up in a ball, giving her
body the curves that had abandoned
her. She shivered and boiled. When
she was deep asleep, he risked coming
closer and bent down. She smelled like
an unfamiliar flower, like a perfume that
makes you dizzy and that causes fevers.
But Polo knew, in the humble nobility
of an ignorant peasant, that charity
should not be confused with...
“Where you from?”
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“Me? From the city...”
“Why did them people get you drunk
and threw you out of the car?”
130. Una “sobada” incluye primeramente un ritual espiritual con ruda, alcohol y alcanfor, después hay un
masaje para reparar la lesión.
131. Francés tabouret: asiento de madera sin respaldo.
132. Rubbing the patient using rue, alcohol and camphor to scare away evil spirits, and possibly fix the
injury.
133. From French: a low stool in the shape of a drum.