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Mason said, “When you told me about that, your boy¬friend was with you.” “Well?” she asked. “Did you,” Mason asked, “sort of expurgate the account because he was there?’
—Cuando hablamos de este asunto, su novio estaba presente. —¿Y qué? —¿Trató usted de… expurgar el tema porque él estaba con usted? La joven miró fijamente a Perry Mason. —No.
She had, as it were, been expurgated and Piper, himself in the process of expurgating Pause, derived enormous satisfaction from the fact that with Baby he could act out the role he had been assigned as narrator in the book with a woman who if she was much older than him didn't look it.
La habían expurgado, como quien dice, y Piper, que estaba también entregado a la tarea de expurgar Deteneos, experimentaba una gran satisfacción al poder interpretar con Baby el papel que le había sido asignado en la novela en su calidad de narrador y con una mujer que, a pesar de ser mucho mayor que él, no lo aparentaba.
It was not easy at first, because some sanctimonious teacher had imposed the requirement that he choose and expurgate the books that would be read, but the danger of a rebellion left that to the judgment of the older students.
No fue fácil al principio, porque algún maestro mojigato había impuesto el criterio de escoger y expurgar los libros que iban a leerse, pero el riesgo de una rebelión los encomendó al criterio de los estudiantes mayores.
Such words as profligate, precipitant, precipitate, epithet, dysphoria, expurgate, quotidian, lapidarian, lacrymose, stationary, stationery, unparalleled, inchoate, heinous, dais, dour, err, harass, impious, forte, slough, prophecy, prophesy, forgo, forego, resuscitate, genealogy, sacrilegious, braggadocio, gnomic, tortuous, fortuitous, contingency, autarky, temerarious, encomium.
Palabras como despilfarrador, precipitante, precipitado, epíteto, difteria, expurgar, cotidiano, lapidario, lacrimatorio, estacionario, estarcido, inexcusable, incoado, abyecto, estrado, adusto, errar, hostigar, impío, cenagal, profecía, profetizar, renunciar, resucitar, genealogía, meteorológico, sacrílego, jactancioso, gnómico, tosquedad, fortuito, contingencia, autarquía, temperado, elongación.
She thought about the years she’d lived in Mexico City and began to superimpose Vasconcelos’ various faces on them—from the young, romantic student to the dashing intellectual guerrillero of the Revolution, to the noble educator with the interminable forehead who commissioned Diego Rivera to paint murals, to the Bergsonian philosopher of élan vital, to the Americanist of the “cosmic race,” to the presidential candidate who opposed the Maximum Chief Calles and his court jester Luis Napoleon Morones, the man who’d corrupted Juan Francisco, to the resentful exile who ended up, old and choleric, praising Franco and fascism and ordering his own books expurgated.
Pensó en los años vividos en esta ciudad y a ellos se iba superponiendo el rostro de Vasconcelos, del joven y romántico estudiante al bizarro guerrillero intelectual de la Revolución al noble educador de frente interminable que le dio los murales a Diego Rivera, al filósofo bergsoniano del ímpetu vital al americanista de la raza cósmica, al candidato presidencial opositor del jefe Máximo Calles y su bufón de corte Luis Napoleón Morones que corrompió a Juan Francisco, al resentido exiliado que acabó, viejo y berrinchudo, elogiando a Franco y al fascismo y mandando expurgar sus propios libros.
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