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George Orwell 1 9 8 4<br />
Chapter 9 CAPÍTULO IX<br />
Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. Gelatinous<br />
was the right word. It had come into his head<br />
spontaneously. His body seemed to have not only<br />
the weakness of a jelly, but its translucency. He<br />
felt that if he held up his hand he would be able to<br />
see the light through it. All the blood and lymph<br />
had been drained out of him by an enormous<br />
<strong>de</strong>bauch of work, leaving only a frail structure of<br />
nerves, bones, and skin. All sensations seemed to<br />
be magnified. His overalls fretted his shoul<strong>de</strong>rs,<br />
the pavement tickled his feet, even the opening and<br />
closing of a hand was an effort that ma<strong>de</strong> his joints<br />
creak.<br />
He had worked more than ninety hours in five<br />
days. So had everyone else in the Ministry. Now it<br />
was all over, and he had literally nothing to do, no<br />
Party work of any <strong>de</strong>scription, until tomorrow<br />
morning. He could spend six hours in the hidingplace<br />
and another nine in his own bed. Slowly, in<br />
mild afternoon sunshine, he walked up a dingy<br />
street in the direction of Mr Charrington's shop,<br />
keeping one eye open for the patrols, but<br />
irrationally convinced that this afternoon there was<br />
no danger of anyone interfering with him. The<br />
heavy brief-case that he was carrying bumped<br />
against his knee at each step, sending a tingling<br />
sensation up and down the skin of his leg. Insi<strong>de</strong> it<br />
was the book, which he had now had in his<br />
possession for six days and had not yet opened,<br />
nor even looked at.<br />
On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the<br />
processions, the speeches, the shouting, the<br />
singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the<br />
waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of<br />
trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding<br />
of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed<br />
planes, the booming of guns—after six days of<br />
this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its<br />
climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had<br />
boiled up into such <strong>de</strong>lirium that if the crowd<br />
could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian<br />
war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on<br />
the last day of the proceedings, they would<br />
211<br />
Winston se encontraba cansadísimo, tan cansado<br />
que le parecía estarse convirtiendo en gelatina.<br />
Pensó que su cuerpo no sólo tenía la flojedad <strong>de</strong> la<br />
gelatina, sino su transparencia. Era como si al<br />
levantar la mano fuera a ver la luz a través <strong>de</strong> ella.<br />
Trabajaba tanto que sólo le quedaba una frágil<br />
estructura <strong>de</strong> nervios, huesos y piel. Todas las<br />
sensaciones le parecían ampliadas. Su «mono» le<br />
estaba ancho, el suelo le hacía cosquillas en los pies<br />
y hasta el simple movimiento <strong>de</strong> abrir y cerrar la<br />
mano constituía para él un esfuerzo que le hacía<br />
sonar los huesos.<br />
Había trabajado más <strong>de</strong> noventa horas en cinco<br />
días, lo mismo que todos los funcionarios <strong>de</strong>l<br />
Ministerio. Ahora había terminado todo y nada<br />
tenía que hacer hasta el día siguiente por la<br />
mañana. Podía pasar seis horas en su refugio y<br />
otras nueve en su cama. Bajo el tibio sol <strong>de</strong> la tar<strong>de</strong><br />
se dirigió <strong>de</strong>spacio en dirección a la tienda <strong>de</strong>l<br />
señor Charrington, sin per<strong>de</strong>r <strong>de</strong> vista las patrullas,<br />
pero convencido, irracionalmente, <strong>de</strong> que aquella<br />
tar<strong>de</strong> no se cernía sobre él ningún peligro. La<br />
pesada cartera que llevaba le golpeaba la rodilla a<br />
cada paso. Dentro llevaba el libro, que tenía ya<br />
<strong>de</strong>s<strong>de</strong> seis días antes pero que aún no había abierto.<br />
Ni siquiera lo había mirado.<br />
En el sexto día <strong>de</strong> la Semana <strong>de</strong>l Odio, <strong>de</strong>spués <strong>de</strong><br />
los <strong>de</strong>sfiles, discursos, gritos, cánticos, ban<strong>de</strong>ras,<br />
películas, figuras <strong>de</strong> cera, estruendo <strong>de</strong> trompetas y<br />
tambores, arrastrar <strong>de</strong> pies cansados, rechinar <strong>de</strong><br />
tanques, zumbido <strong>de</strong> las escuadrillas aéreas, salvas<br />
<strong>de</strong> cañonazos..., <strong>de</strong>spués <strong>de</strong> seis días <strong>de</strong> todo esto,<br />
cuando el gran orgasmo político llegaba a su punto<br />
culminante y el odio general contra Eurasia era ya<br />
un <strong>de</strong>lirio tan exacerbado que si la multitud hubiera<br />
podido apo<strong>de</strong>rarse <strong>de</strong> los dos mil prisioneros <strong>de</strong><br />
guerra eurasiáticos que habían sido ahorcados<br />
públicamente el último día <strong>de</strong> los festejos, los<br />
habría <strong>de</strong>spedazado..., en ese momento