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Entré al baño: era una pequeña sala con espejos rotos y opacos, y, al fondo, el único baño como un cajón —también en láminas de zinc, igual que el terminal—.
I went into the lavatory: it was a small space with broken opaque mirrors, and at the back, the only cubicle looked like a crate—also made of corrugated-zinc sheets, like the terminal itself.
Había sido uno de los primeros que llevaron láminas de zinc a Macondo, mucho antes de que la compañía bananera las pusiera de moda, sólo por techar con ellas el dormitorio de Petra Cotes y solazarse con la impresión de intimidad profunda que en aquella época le producía la crepitación de la lluvia.
He had been one of the first to bring zinc sheets to Macondo, much earlier than their popularization by the banana company, simply to roof Petra Cotess bedroom with them and to take pleasure in the feeling of deep intimacy that the sprinkling of the rain produced at that time.
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