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Al mecanismo de mi memoria se le hace difícil lidiar con estas disparidades, y sin embargo, en esa época, tras el impacto inicial de la tarde de lluvia en el lavadero, comencé a asumir todas aquellas circunstancias, su edad, mi juventud, lo insólito de nuestro amor, todo.
The mechanism of my memory has difficulty grappling with these disparities, yet at the time, after the initial shock of that rainy afternoon in the laundry room, I began to take it all blandly for granted, her age, my youth, the unlikeliness of our love, everything.
Si alguna vez se hubiese desenganchado la barba del cabello para lavarse el uno y cortarse la otra, podría habernos asombrado a todos al presentar un aspecto similar al de los niños de los elefantes de Kipling, pero no lo hizo nunca y, por lo tanto, seguía siendo un hombre misterioso, al menos para mí, sin edad ni juventud, pero cargado de experiencia como el judío errante.
If he had ever disengaged his beard from his hair and shaved the one and clipped the other, he might have astonished us all by looking like one of Kipling’s elephant boys, but he never did either, and so, to me at least, he remained a man of mystery, without age or youth, but burdened with experience, like the wandering Jew.
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