Translation for "intendencia" to english

Intendencia

• intent

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intent

luego los civiles: Herodes Antipas, sus amigos y los amigos de sus amigos, comerciante, príncipe, obispo, jefe de claque y blanqueador de conciencias para organizar el atentado, aplaudir la intención y perdonar el fracaso; y todos los sobrinos y ahijados de Tiberio en la lejana Roma y sus amigos y los amigos de las esposas y de los maridos de sus amigos que acudían a comer con los generales y a vender a los gobiernos de los generales los proyectiles y las armas y los aviones y la carne y los zapatos para que los generales los gastaran contra el enemigo, y sus secretarios y mensajeros y chóferes que habían conseguido la exención del servicio militar porque había que llevar la cartera y conducir el automóvil, y aquellos que de hecho vivían como pater familiae en los bulevares y avenidas de la ciudad, e incluso en calles más aristocráticas, antes ya de que la ciudad iniciara sus cuatro años de apoteosis, y durante el transcurso de aquella apoteosis, y que aún vivirían allí (al menos así lo esperaban) después de que la apoteosis terminase y se olvidara; alcalde y ciudadano, doctor abogado director inspector y juez que no contaban con una carta personal de Tiberio desde Roma pero que, aun restringidos a salas de visita y mesas de comedor, se relacionaban siempre con generales y coroneles y no con capitanes ni oficiales subalternos; tabernero y herrero y panadero y tendero y artesano que no se relacionaban ni con capitanes ni oficiales subalternos ni sargentos ni cabos ni tampoco con soldados rasos puesto que eran sus mujeres las que hacían punto detrás de mostradores de zinc, que pesaban el pan y las verduras y devolvían el cambio y que golpeaban la ropa interior contra las piedras de la orilla del río; y las mujeres que no eran esposas ni de directores ni de panaderos, que no trabajaban en la guerra sino a causa de la guerra y que, por la misma razón que, en cierto sentido, dos mil novecientos noventa y siete de los generales no eran más que un solo general, todas ellas no eran tampoco más que una sola mujer, tanto si los coroneles de estado mayor se ponían en pie cuando entraban en una habitación como si compartían el mismo piso de una pensión modesta con capitanes de intendencia o preparaban la sopa de los cabos del servicio de comunicaciones o, convertidas ellas mismas en tropa, suministraban a su pareja eso a lo que se da el nombre de amor y que, según la lista de un sargento, no podía considerarse sin duda como algo muy distinto de la ración de hierro o de las botas que recibe un soldado, y que no obligaba a la pareja a ponerse de nuevo la guerrera o el capote antes de volver al frente porque el sargento que tomaba nota a la entrada y la salida de ese amor quizá nunca le había permitido quitarse ninguno de los dos, de tal modo que la mitad de las veces la mujer se llevaba a dormir con ella por la noche la semilla todavía tibia y viva de un muerto; y luego, en el último lugar absoluto, la masa anónima, sin nombre y sin rostro, que abarrotaba la antigua Jerusalén al igual que la antigua Roma y donde, de cuando en cuando, gobernador y césar le arrojaban pan y espectáculos circenses, de la misma manera que, en la antigua e ingenua pantomima, el pastor que huye abandona a los lobos que lo persiguen trozos de su almuerzo, una prenda de vestir y, como último recurso, al cordero mismo;
then the civilians: Antipas his friends and their friends, merchant and prince and bishop, administrator clacquer and absolver to ministrate the attempt and applaud the intention and absolve the failed result, and all the nephews and godsons of Tiberius in far Rome and their friends and the friends of the wives and the husbands of their friends come to dine with the generals and sell to the generals' governments the shells and guns and air-craft and beef and shoes for the generals to expend against the enemy, and their secretaries and couriers and chauffeurs who had got military deferment because the briefcases had to be carried and the motorcars driven, and those who actually dwelled as pater-familiae among the city's boulevards and avenues and even less base streets already before the city entered its four-year apotheosis and while apotheosis obtained and would still (so they hoped) after apotheosis had ceased and been forgotten-mayor and burgher, doctor attorney director inspector and judge who held no particu-lar letter from Tiberius in Rome yet whose contacts were still among generals and colonels and not captains and subalterns even if they were restricted to drawing rooms and dining tables, pub-lican and smith and baker and grocer and wright whose contacts were not with captains nor subalterns nor with sergeants and cor-porals and privates neither since it was their wives who knitted behind the zinc bars and weighed and exchanged sous for the bread and greens and beat the underwear on the river's margin stones; and the women who were not the wives of directors or bakers, who traded not in war but because of war and who as in a sense two thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven of the gen-erals were just one general were all one woman too whether staff colonels stood when they entered rooms or whether they lived on the same floor in modest pensions with Service Corps captains or boiled the soup of communications corporals or, troops themselves, received their partners in what is called love and perhaps even is from a sergeant's roll-call as a soldier receives his iron ration or boots and no need for that partner to put back on his tunic or greatcoat before going on into the lines because the sergeant who checked him into and out of that love which perhaps had never let him take either off, so that as often as not she carried into sleep with her that night a dead man's still warm and living seed; and then and last even anonymity's absolute whose nameless face-less mass cluttered old Jerusalem and old Rome too while from time to time governor and caesar flung them bread or a circus as in the old snowy pantomime the fleeing shepherd casts back to the pursuing wolves fragments of his lunch, a garment, and as a last resort the lamb itself-the laborers who owned today only the spending of what they earned yesterday, the beggars and thieves who did not always understand that what they did was beggary and theft, the lepers beneath city gate and temple door who did not even know they were not whole, who belonged neither to the military nor to the merchants and princes and bishops, who nei-ther derived nor hoped for any benefit from army contracts nor battened by simply existing, breathing coeval with the prodigality and waste concomitant with a nation's mortal agony, that strange and constant few who each time are denied any opportunity what-ever to share in the rich carnival of their country's wasting life-blood, whose luck is out always with no kin nor friends who have kin or friends who have powerful kin or friends or patrons, who owned nothing in fact save a reversion in endurance without hope of betterment nor any spur of pride-a capacity for endurance which even after four years of existence as tolerated and rightless aliens on their own land and in their own city still enabled them without hope or pride even in the endurance to endure, asking or expecting no more than permission to exercise it, like a sort of immortality.