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El trabajo de Neel se complicaba aún más, si cabía, a causa de las costumbres del seth a la hora de dictar cartas: siempre dictaba de pie y deambulando sin cesar de un lado a otro del daftar, lo cual añadía aún más confusión a sus palabras, que ya de por sí brotaban de sus labios en tumultuosos torrentes. Y cada uno de esos torrentes era una ciénaga de sedimentos dejados por multitud de lenguas: guyaratí, indostánico, inglés, pidgin, cantonés… Interrumpir al seth cuando estaba lanzado era, sencillamente, inconcebible; formular una pregunta sobre tal o cual frase, o interesarse por el significado de tal o cual palabra era arriesgarse a desencadenar su ira.
Neel’s job was further complicated by the Seth’s habits of dictation: he always composed on his feet and his restless pacing seemed to add to the turbulence of his words, which often came pouring out in braided torrents of speech, each rushing stream being silted with the sediment of many tongues – Gujarati, Hindusthani, English, pidgin, Cantonese. To stop the Seth when he was in full flow was inconceivable, and to pose a question about this phrase or that, or to ask the meaning of one word or another, was to risk an explosion of irritability – queries had to be deferred till later, or better still, referred to Vico.
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