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but what could not be explained in such a context (and this is the reason I mention above, the one that should have made me decide to play dumb, and in which aim I immediately failed) was the black Goyaesque hairnet that De la Garza actually and impossibly was wearing to keep his hair in place or for some other cretinous motive, and so my confused vision of that second moment turned out to be right.
pero lo que no se explicaba en tal contexto (y es lo que he dicho que en seguida diría, lo que me resolvió a hacerme el loco aunque al instante incumpliera el propósito) era la redecilla de luto goyesca que efectiva e imposiblemente De la Garza llevaba puesta para aplastarse mejor el pelo o por alguna razón cretinoide, mi visión confusa de segunda instancia resultó ser la acertada.
Hours earlier, when I had come down to eat, the foyer was brightly lit by a row of spotlights pointed at the ceiling, but now it had been overtaken by a darkness only lessened by the light of the reception desk and that of a couple of floor lamps whose circle of light barely managed to drag from the shadows the prints of old Madrid, the Goyaesque lithographs and the charmless still lifes that decorated the walls.
Horas atrás, cuando había bajado a cenar, el salón estaba bien iluminado por una hilera de focos encastados en el techo, pero ahora se había adueñado de él una oscuridad sólo atenuada por la luz de la conserjería y la de un par de lámparas de pie cuyo cerco de luz apenas alcanzaba a arrancar de la sombra los grabados del viejo Madrid, las litografías goyescas y los bodegones sin gracia que decoraban las paredes.
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