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Hasta el Chamelecón no llega su ley;<br />

hasta allí no llega su justicia. En la<br />

región se <strong>de</strong>ja —como en los tiempos<br />

primitivos— tener buen o mal corazón<br />

a los hombres y a las otras bestias; ser<br />

crueles o magnánimos, matar o salvar a<br />

libre albedrío. El <strong>de</strong>recho es claramente<br />

<strong>de</strong>l más fuerte.<br />

* * *<br />

Los cuatro bandidos entraron por la<br />

palizada y se sentaron luego en la<br />

plazoleta <strong>de</strong>l rancho, aquel rancho<br />

náufrago en el cañaveral cimarrón.<br />

Pusieron la caja en medio y probaron<br />

a conectar la bocina. La luna llena<br />

hacía saltar chingastes <strong>de</strong> plata sobre el<br />

artefacto. En la mediagua y <strong>de</strong> una viga,<br />

pendía un pedazo <strong>de</strong> venado olisco.<br />

—Te digo ques fológrafo.<br />

—¿Vos bis visto cómo lo tocan?<br />

—¡Ajú!... En los bananales los ei visto...<br />

—¡Yastuvo!...<br />

La trompa trabó. El bandolero le dio<br />

cuerda, y <strong>de</strong>spués, abriendo la bolsa<br />

<strong>de</strong> los discos, los hizo salir a la luz <strong>de</strong> la<br />

luna como otras tantas lunas negras.<br />

35<br />

Honduran law can not reach as far as the<br />

Chamelecón; justice is never seen that<br />

far. In that region, it is up to individuals,<br />

as in primitive times, to be good or badhearted<br />

towards other men and other<br />

beasts; to be cruel or magnanimous,<br />

to kill or to save according to their free<br />

will. The right is clearly on the si<strong>de</strong> of<br />

the strongest.<br />

* * *<br />

The four bandits came through the<br />

forest and quickly perched themselves<br />

down on the porch of the shack… that<br />

shipwrecked shack on a windy sugar<br />

plantation. They put the stolen box<br />

in the middle and tried to connect the<br />

bellflower-shaped horn. The full moon<br />

ma<strong>de</strong> pieces of silver jump out of the<br />

artifact. In the middle of the roof, and<br />

hanging from a beam, was a piece of<br />

stinking venison.<br />

“Ah tell ya it’s a pholograph.”<br />

“You seen how it works?”<br />

“Of course! I seen it in the banana<br />

plantations…”<br />

“We’ve got it ma<strong>de</strong>!”<br />

One of the bandits assembled the<br />

bellflower horn and cranked it up. He<br />

opened the bag of records, and pulled<br />

them out into the light of the moon<br />

creating so many other black moons.<br />

The phonograph worked.

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