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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,

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