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“I surrender,” Gary said. An irony, of course, was that as soon as he’d surrendered—possibly as soon as he’d confessed to his depression, almost certainly by the time he showed her his hand and she put a proper bandage on it, and absolutely no later than the moment at which, with a locomotive as long and hard and heavy as an O-gauge model railroad engine, he tunneled up into wet and gently corrugated recesses that even after twenty years of traveling through them still felt unexplored (his approach was spoon-style, from behind, so that Caroline could keep her lower back arched outward and he could harmlessly drape his bandaged hand across her flank;
—Me rindo —dijo Gary. Lo irónico, por supuesto, era que tan pronto como se hubo rendido —tan pronto, quizá, como confesó su condición deprimida; tan pronto, sin duda alguna, como le enseñó la mano y ella le colocó un vendaje como Dios manda; y, desde luego, no más tarde del momento en el cual, con una locomotora más grande y más dura y más poderosa que un modelo ferroviario a gran escala, se internó en el túnel húmedo y de suaves corrugaciones cuyos más intrincados recovecos seguían antojándosele inexplorados, a pesar de que llevaba veinte años recorriéndolos (practicó el acercamiento al estilo cuchara, por detrás, de modo que Caroline pudiera mantener arqueada la parte baja de la espalda y él pudiera acomodar a un costado de ella el brazo de la venda;
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