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George Orwell 1 9 8 4<br />

everything?' todo?<br />

'Yes.' — Sí.<br />

'Then get away from me as quick as you can.' — Entonces, márchate de mi lado lo más pronto<br />

que puedas.<br />

She need not have told him that. But for the moment<br />

they could not extricate themselves from the crowd.<br />

The trucks were still filing past, the people still<br />

insatiably gaping. At the start there had been a few<br />

boos and hisses, but it came only from the Party<br />

members among the crowd, and had soon stopped.<br />

The prevailing emotion was simply curiosity.<br />

Foreigners, whether from Eurasia or from Eastasia,<br />

were a kind of strange animal. One literally never<br />

saw them except in the guise of prisoners, and even<br />

as prisoners one never got more than a momentary<br />

glimpse of them. Nor did one know what became of<br />

them, apart from the few who were hanged as warcriminals:<br />

the others simply vanished, presumably<br />

into forced-labour camps. The round Mogol faces<br />

had given way to faces of a more European type,<br />

dirty, bearded and exhausted. From over scrubby<br />

cheekbones eyes looked into Winston's, sometimes<br />

with strange intensity, and flashed away again. The<br />

convoy was drawing to an end. In the last truck he<br />

could see an aged man, his face a mass of grizzled<br />

hair, standing upright with wrists crossed in front of<br />

him, as though he were used to having them bound<br />

together. It was almost time for Winston and the girl<br />

to part. But at the last moment, while the crowd still<br />

hemmed them in, her hand felt for his and gave it a<br />

fleeting squeeze.<br />

It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed<br />

a long time that their hands were clasped together.<br />

He had time to learn every detail of her hand. He<br />

explored the long fingers, the shapely nails, the<br />

work-hardened palm with its row of callouses, the<br />

smooth flesh under the wrist. Merely from feeling it<br />

he would have known it by sight. In the same instant<br />

it occurred to him that he did not know what colour<br />

139<br />

No necesitaba habérselo dicho. Pero, por lo pronto,<br />

no se podía mover. Los camiones no dejaban de<br />

pasar y la gente no se cansaba de expresar su<br />

entusiasmo. Aunque es verdad que solamente lo<br />

expresaban abriendo la boca en señal de<br />

estupefacción. Al Principio había habido algunos<br />

abucheos y silbidos, pero procedían sólo de los<br />

miembros del Partido y pronto cesaron. La<br />

emoción dominante era sólo la curiosidad. Los<br />

extranjeros, ya fueran de Eurasia o de Asia<br />

Oriental, eran como animales raros. No había<br />

manera de verlos, sino como prisioneros; e incluso<br />

como prisioneros no era posible verlos más que<br />

unos segundos. Tampoco se sabía qué hacían con<br />

ellos aparte de los ejecutados públicamente como<br />

criminales de guerra. Los demás se esfumaban,<br />

seguramente en los campos de trabajos forzados.<br />

Los redondos rostros mongólicos habían dejado<br />

paso a los de tipo más europeo, sucios, barbudos y<br />

exhaustos. Por encima de los salientes pómulos, los<br />

ojos de algunos miraban a los de Winston con una<br />

extraña intensidad y pasaban al instante. El convoy<br />

se estaba terminando. En el último camión vio<br />

Winston a un anciano con la cara casi oculta por<br />

una masa de cabello, muy erguido y con los puños<br />

cruzados sobre el pecho. Daba la sensación de estar<br />

acostumbrado a que lo ataran. Era imprescindible<br />

que Winston y la chica se separaran ya. Pero en el<br />

último momento, mientras que la multitud los<br />

seguía apretando el uno contra el otro, ella le cogió<br />

la mano y se la estrechó.<br />

No habría durado aquello más de diez segundos y,<br />

sin embargo, parecía que sus manos habían estado<br />

unidas durante una eternidad. Por lo menos, tuvo<br />

Winston tiempo sobrado para aprenderse de<br />

memoria todos los detalles de aquella mano de<br />

mujer. Exploró sus largos dedos, sus uñas bien<br />

formadas, la palma endurecida por el trabajo con<br />

varios callos y la suavidad de la carne junto a la

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