cuentos de barro - DSpace Universidad Don Bosco
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cuentos de barro - DSpace Universidad Don Bosco
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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 />
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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.