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he published at last his enormous book, an Art of Memory which anyone who dared look into it could see was a work of magia deep-dyed and horribly potent: he even gave it a title taken from that book of Solomon's he had hidden in the privy long ago: De umbris idearum, About the Shadows of Ideas.
publicó por fin su enorme libro, un Arte de la Memoria que, a quienquiera que se atreviese a escudriñarlo se revelaría como una obra de magia implacable y terriblemente poderosa: le dio incluso un título tomado de un libro de Salomón que él había ocultado tiempo atrás en la letrina: De umbris idearum.
Enough pieces had now been written on Majorca to make a book and, arranging them into the four seasons of the year, I typed the final draft into A Stay of Some Time, the title taken from Baedeker’s Spain and Portugal, in which it is stated that ‘Soller is suitable for a stay of some time’, which I knew to be true enough.
Tenía suficientes piezas escritas sobre Mallorca como para componer un libro, así que las repartí durante las cuatro estaciones del año y mecanografié el borrador final con el título de Una estancia temporal, título tomado de la Baedeker España y Portugal, en la que se afirma que «Sóller es apropiado para una estancia temporal», lo que yo sabía que era cierto.
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