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their food was fish and shellfish, fresh or dried, and rockweed.
se alimentaban de pescados y moluscos, frescos o secos, y de algas.
he soon touched the bottom, but all he could feel was slimy seaweed and tangles of rockweed. He fumbled blindly for the gun, terrified to come up without it, and forced himself to stay down as long as he could.
En seguida tocó fondo, pero lo único que notaba eran algas pegajosas y zosteras. Ciego, buscaba a tientas la escopeta. No se atrevía a subir a la superficie sin ella y se obligó a permanecer unos segundos más.
I was eleven years old when he went out for cigarettes, a warm evening with men playing pinochle inside a storefront club and radio voices everywhere on the street, someone's always playing a radio, and they took him out near Orchard Beach, where the shoreline is crannied with remote inlets, and they dropped him into the lower world, his body suspended above the rockweed, in the soft organic murk.
Tenía yo once años cuando salió a comprar cigarrillos, una cálida tarde en la que los hombres jugaban a las cartas en un club con escaparate, con voces radiofónicas que inundaban la calle por doquier, siempre hay alguien con la radio puesta, y le llevaron hasta las proximidades de la playa Orchard, allí donde la costa aparece roída de estrechos canales, y le arrojaron, su cuerpo suspendido sobre las algas, sobre la blanda oscuridad orgánica, al mundo de las profundidades.
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