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Pero la falta de cualquier información sobre dónde podría estar aquella base, y una base era necesaria, era frenéticamente frustradora.
But the lack of any information about where that base might be—and a base was necessary—was frenziedly frustrating.
Su deseo de ella crecía como una enfermedad, y en la última fase de su viaje el movimiento se redujo al frustrador avance de un caracol.
His desire for her grew like a sickness, and in the last stage of his journey, motion reduced itself to a frustrating snail’s pace.
Si se hiciesen el amor, pero de veras, en vez de esos tontos y frustradores besuqueos de los que se avergonzaban después, estaba seguro de que cesarían sus peleas.
If they made love to each other, really made love, not that frustrating, foolish necking that made them both ashamed after it, he was sure they wouldn’t be scratching at each other all the time.
Don Rigoberto tampoco miró a Lucrecia al pasar junto a ella rumbo a la escalera, pese a la curiosidad que lo devoraba por saber si aún estaba lívida, o más bien granate, de indignación, de sorpresa, de incertidumbre, de desasosiego, preguntándose como él si eso que el chico había dicho, hecho, obedecía a una maquinación, o era obra del azar intrigante, rocambolesco, frustrador y mezquino, enemigo de la felicidad.
Don Rigoberto did not look at Lucrecia as he passed her on his way to the stairs, though he was consumed by curiosity to know if she was still livid, or bright red perhaps, with indignation, surprise, uncertainty, unease, asking herself, as he was, whether what the boy had said and done was part of some plan or the work of chance, scheming and labyrinthine, frustrating and mean-spirited, the enemy of happiness.
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