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Se había comportado con gallardía ante ambos neurocirujanos, pero ahora, atrapado entre las dos diferentes propuestas que éstos le hacían, se hallaba en una situación de completa impotencia.
He’d conducted himself gallantly with the two brain surgeons, but now, caught in the vise of their differing proposals, he succumbed to a wild helplessness.
Peter Mayer, un grandullón entrañable, de pelo alborotado, con mucho éxito entre las mujeres, de voz dulce y mirada tierna, muy admirado por otros editores, y ahora atrapado de pleno en lo que empezaba a conocerse como el «caso Rushdie», parecía cada vez más un conejo sorprendido bajo la luz de unos faros.
Peter Mayer, a big, cuddly, tousle-headed bear of a man, famously attractive to women, soft-voiced, doe-eyed, much admired by his fellow publishers, and now caught up in the throes of what had become known as the “Rushdie Affair,” looked increasingly like a rabbit in the headlights.
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