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Su mano gris, agarrada <strong>de</strong>l badajo 122 ,<br />

se puso a tirar sobre el pueblo dormido<br />

gran<strong>de</strong>s anillos sonoros, que caían<br />

ondulando, ondulando; abriéndose,<br />

abriéndose..., hasta llegar a la orilla<br />

<strong>de</strong>l cielo, don<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong>spuntaban ligeros<br />

clarores. Luego, Agruelio bajó chas,<br />

chas, chas, <strong>de</strong> grada en grada; siempre<br />

arrastrisco, apoyándose con una mano<br />

en la pared <strong>de</strong>l caracol. En la escurana,<br />

las can<strong>de</strong>las pintaban claror con sus<br />

brochitas azules. Los murciégalos<br />

entraban, borrachos, huyendo <strong>de</strong>l día;<br />

escupían y se colgaban, como tasajos,<br />

en las vigas; uno que otro rozaba la cara<br />

<strong>de</strong>l sacristán, con su cuerpo <strong>de</strong> guineyo<br />

pasado.<br />

—¡Estos babosos !... ¡Shé!...<br />

Quería quitárselos a manotadas, como<br />

a moscas. No le casaba mucho el<br />

pañueleo espeluznante <strong>de</strong> las alas <strong>de</strong><br />

carne.<br />

—¡Bían dihacer recogida, con estos<br />

ratones volantes! Tienen carediablo,<br />

dientes, pelos y juman... ¡Papadas!...<br />

Se fue <strong>de</strong>recho al crucero. Al llegar<br />

frente al altar <strong>de</strong> su <strong>de</strong>voción, se arrodilló<br />

persignándose; cruzó los brazos, y,<br />

elevando su rostro un poquito ladiado,<br />

lo endulzó humillándolo, mientras<br />

<strong>de</strong>jaba caer una plegaria.<br />

58<br />

His gray hand held onto the clapper<br />

of the bell, until it began throwing<br />

big rings of sound over the sleeping<br />

population. The rings fell undulating,<br />

undulating, opening, opening... all the<br />

way to the tip of heaven, to the distant<br />

clear light. After, Aurelio <strong>de</strong>scen<strong>de</strong>d<br />

the stairs one by one, clomp, clomp,<br />

clomp. Slumped over, as usual, bracing<br />

himself with his hand, he went down<br />

on the spiral stairs. In the darkness, the<br />

candles painted gleams with their blue<br />

brushes. The bats entered, drunkenly,<br />

fleeing from the day. They spat and<br />

clung to the beams like jerked-beef.<br />

Every other bat brushed the sacristan’s<br />

face with its body like a rotten banana.<br />

“Freakin’ bats. Shoo!”<br />

He wanted to swat them like flies. He<br />

didn’t like the lurid flapping of their<br />

fleshy wings.<br />

“Someone must do something with<br />

these flying rats! Their faces look like<br />

the <strong>de</strong>vil. They have teeth, hair and<br />

they even smoke 123 . Damn bats!<br />

He procee<strong>de</strong>d straight to the transept.<br />

When he arrived at the altar of his<br />

<strong>de</strong>votion, he knelt down making the<br />

sign of the cross. Then he crossed his<br />

arms and elevated his angered face.<br />

He showed him his humble love, as his<br />

prayer flowed out.<br />

122. RAE: badajo. (Del lat. vulg. *batuaculum, <strong>de</strong>r. <strong>de</strong> battuĕre, batir).1. m. Pieza metálica, generalmente<br />

en forma <strong>de</strong> pera, que pen<strong>de</strong> en el interior <strong>de</strong> las campanas, y con la cual se golpean estas para hacerlas<br />

sonar. En los cencerros y esquilas suele ser <strong>de</strong> ma<strong>de</strong>ra o hueso.<br />

123. Because bats are believed to be <strong>de</strong>mons, it is an ancient practice to torture a bat by nailing its wings<br />

t a tree and forcing the animal to smoke.

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