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George Orwell 1 9 8 4<br />
powerful and troubling. intensamente.<br />
'Where did you get this stuff?' he said. — ¿Dón<strong>de</strong> encontraste esto? —dijo.<br />
'Black market,' she said indifferently. 'Actually I<br />
am that sort of girl, to look at. I'm good at games. I<br />
was a troop-lea<strong>de</strong>r in the Spies. I do voluntary<br />
work three evenings a week for the Junior Anti-Sex<br />
League. Hours and hours I've spent pasting their<br />
bloody rot all over London. I always carry one end<br />
of a banner in the processions. I always look<br />
cheerful and I never shirk anything. Always yell<br />
with the crowd, that's what I say. It's the only way<br />
to be safe.'<br />
The first fragment of chocolate had melted on<br />
Winston's tongue. The taste was <strong>de</strong>lightful. But<br />
there was still that memory moving round the<br />
edges of his consciousness, something strongly felt<br />
but not reducible to <strong>de</strong>finite shape, like an object<br />
seen out of the corner of one's eye. He pushed it<br />
away from him, aware only that it was the memory<br />
of some action which he would have liked to undo<br />
but could not.<br />
'You are very young,' he said. 'You are ten or<br />
fifteen years younger than I am. What could you<br />
see to attract you in a man like me?'<br />
'It was something in your face. I thought I'd take a<br />
chance. I'm good at spotting people who don't<br />
belong. As soon as I saw you I knew you were<br />
against THEM.'<br />
THEM, it appeared, meant the Party, and above all<br />
the Inner Party, about whom she talked with an<br />
open jeering hatred which ma<strong>de</strong> Winston feel<br />
uneasy, although he knew that they were safe here<br />
if they could be safe anywhere. A thing that<br />
astonished him about her was the coarseness of her<br />
language. Party members were supposed not to<br />
swear, and Winston himself very seldom did swear,<br />
aloud, at any rate. Julia, however, seemed unable to<br />
mention the Party, and especially the Inner Party,<br />
146<br />
— En el mercado negro —dijo ella con<br />
indiferencia. Yo me las arreglo bastante bien. Fui<br />
jefe <strong>de</strong> sección en los Espías. Trabajo<br />
voluntariamente tres tar<strong>de</strong>s a la semana en la Liga<br />
juvenil Anti—Sex. Me he pasado horas y horas<br />
<strong>de</strong>sfilando por Londres. Siempre soy yo la que<br />
lleva uno <strong>de</strong> los estandartes. Pongo muy buena cara<br />
y nunca intento librarme <strong>de</strong> una lata. Mi lema es<br />
«grita siempre con los <strong>de</strong>más». Es el único modo<br />
<strong>de</strong> estar seguros.<br />
El primer trocito <strong>de</strong> chocolate se le había <strong>de</strong>rretido<br />
a Winston en la lengua. Su sabor era <strong>de</strong>licioso.<br />
Pero le seguía rondando aquel recuerdo que no<br />
podía fijar, algo así como un objeto visto por el<br />
rabillo <strong>de</strong>l ojo. Hizo por librarse <strong>de</strong> él quedándole<br />
la sensación <strong>de</strong> que se trataba <strong>de</strong> algo que él había<br />
hecho en tiempos y que hubiera preferido no haber<br />
hecho.<br />
— Eres muy joven —dijo —. Debes <strong>de</strong> ser unos<br />
diez o quince años más joven que yo. ¿Qué has<br />
podido ver en un hombre como yo que te haya<br />
atraído?<br />
— Algo en tu cara. Me <strong>de</strong>cidí a arriesgarme.<br />
Conozco en seguida a la gente <strong>de</strong> la acera <strong>de</strong><br />
enfrente. En cuanto te vi supe que estabas contra<br />
ellos.<br />
Ellos, por lo visto, quería <strong>de</strong>cir el Partido, y sobre<br />
todo el Partido Interior, sobre el cual hablaba Julia<br />
con un odio manifiesto que intranquilizaba a<br />
Winston, aunque sabía que aquel sitio en que se<br />
hallaban era uno <strong>de</strong> los poquísimos lugares don<strong>de</strong><br />
nada tenían que temer. Le asombraba la ru<strong>de</strong>za con<br />
que hablaba Julia. Se suponía que los miembros <strong>de</strong>l<br />
Partido no <strong>de</strong>cían palabrotas, y el propio Winston<br />
apenas las <strong>de</strong>cía como no fuera entre dientes. Sin<br />
embargo, Julia no podía nombrar al Partido,