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Si nos matas, no podremos preparar el contraveneno.
If you kill us who will make the antidote for you ?
Me rindo. Dadme el contraveneno y os devolveré la libertad.
All right, I give up, just give me the antidote and I'll let you go free.
– El contraveneno de eso está aquí -dijo don Juan, acariciando la tierra-.
"The antidote that kills that poison is here," don Juan said, caressing the ground.
Por fortuna había aquí una enfermera y tenía un contraveneno a mano. Apenas surgieron los primeros síntomas, les hizo eliminar el veneno.
Lucky thing that nurse was here and had an antidote for arsenic poisoning where she could put her hand on it. She knocked the poison out of your system almost as soon as the symptoms showed up. She’s a wonder.
Jorge Maura era el contraveneno de la violencia en la que vivían los niños que ella fotografió en atarjeas y túneles, sorprendiendo la belleza inexpugnable de la niñez abandonada como si la cámara de Laura limpiase a los niños como Jorge limpiaba los pisos del monasterio, niños limpios de mocos, lagañas, pelo emplastado, brazos raquíticos, cráneos rapados por la sarna, manos teñidas por el mal del pinto, los pies desnudos con su pastel de lodo como cal-
Jorge Maura was the antidote to the violence the abandoned children lived in; she photographed them in sewers and tunnels, surprising their inexpungible beauty of childhood, as if her camera cleansed them the way Jorge had cleansed the monastery floor, children cleansed of snot, rheum, greasy hair, rachitic arms, heads hairless from mange, hands discolored by pinta, the tropical skin disease, bare feet with crusts of mud as their only shoes.
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