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Suddenly I forgot why I had come, forgot the consequences for Jelloul, his mother’s worry, and could see only Monsieur Sosa in all his arrogance, the repulsive glare of his overweening pride, which seemed to give a purulent tinge to the sunlight.
De pronto, olvidé el motivo de mi visita, el riesgo que corría Jelloul, la angustia de su madre, y sólo vi al señor Sosa encumbrado en su arrogancia, el insano destello de su hipertrofiada altanería que transmitía su purulencia al color del día.
Only a few years ago, he had been one of the lowest of the Royal Scribes of the Superintendent of Agriculture, yet his wish to rise out of the ranks had been so ardent that he asked for the operation that would make him a eunuch, and survived the purulence which followed upon wounds in such swamplike parts of the body.
Hacía tan sólo unos pocos años había sido uno de los escribas reales de menor importancia que trabajaban para el Superintendente de Agricultura, pero su deseo de progresar había sido tan ardiente que pidió la operación que lo transformaría en eunuco y logró sobrevivir a la purulencia de las heridas en esas partes del cuerpo.
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