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I will not conceal from you that choosing the victim is difficult, at times heartrending, a Hamletian dilemma that torments me for days, weeks, and then becomes part of my nightmares.
No le oculto que elegir a la víctima es arduo y, a veces, desgarrador, un dilema hamletiano que me angustia días, semanas, y que luego reconstruyen mis pesadillas.
His mind still fixed on the figure of the venerable jurist assailed by circumstance (embodied in the undergarment of a perfumed and voluptuous woman, which lay before him between two steps of a jurisprudential staircase) and forced into Hamletian uncertainty, but sitting now before the large wooden table in his study and leafing through his notebooks, Don Rigoberto gave a start when the golden cone of light from the lamp revealed the German proverb written at the top of the page: Wer die Wahl hat, hat die Qual (“Whoever must choose must suffer”).
La cabeza todavía fija en la silueta del venerable jurista aventado por las circunstancias (encarnadas en un perfumado y voluptuoso calzón de mujer acostado a su paso entre dos gradas de una escalera jurisprudente) a una incertidumbre hamletiana, pero ya sentado ante la larga mesa de madera de su escritorio y hojeando sus cuadernos, don Rigoberto dio un respingo cuando el cono dorado de la lamparilla le reveló el proverbio alemán que encabezaba esa página: Wer die Wahl hat, hat die Qual («Quien tiene elección, tiene tormento»).
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