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Columnitas de números rojos parpadeaban en las profundidades de su cerebro detallando los vectores de velocidad y elevación.
deep in his brain little columns of red numbers flickered, detailing vectors and speed and elevation.
Los balcones del que quedaba sobre el enorme portón eran de piedra, con columnitas, los de los dos siguientes de hierro forjado con filigranas, todos con contraventanas de tablillas que estaban abiertas, señal de que todo estaba habitado y ningún vecino ausente o de viaje, Custardoy en la ciudad.
The balconies of the apartment immediately above the enormous door were made of stone and had little columns, while above that they were all fancy wrought iron, and every one had slatted shutters that stood open, an indication that each apartment was occupied and no one was away or traveling, and that Custardoy was in town.
La forma verdadera de la ciudad está en ese subir y bajar de los techos, tejas viejas y nuevas, acanaladas y chatas, cumbreras gráciles o pesadas, pérgolas de cañizo o cobertizos de fibrocemento ondulado, barandillas, columnitas que sostienen macetas, albercas de chapa, tragaluces, lumbreras de vidrio, y sobre todas las cosas se alza la arboladura de las antenas de televisión, derechas o torcidas, esmaltadas u oxidadas, en modelos de generaciones sucesivas, diversamente ramificadas y retorcidas y aisladas, pero todas flacas como esqueletos e inquietantes como tótems.
The true form of the city is in this rise and fall of roofs, old tiles and new, curved and flat, slender or squat chimneys, arbors of reed matting and sheds of corrugated iron, railings, balustrades, little columns supporting pots, metal water-tanks, dormers, glass skylights, and rising above all else the rigging of TV aerials, straight or crooked, enameled or rusting, in models of successive generations, variously ramified and horned and shielded, but all of them thin as skeletons and disturbing as totems.
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