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Aunque no eran ángeles, "pasaban", como dicen los franceses, haciéndome temblar por el miedo de que dirigieran a sus jóvenes víctimas un mensaje infernal aún más infernal o una imagen más vívida que las que habían considerado necesario transmitirme a mí.
Though they were not angels, they "passed," as the French say, causing me, while they stayed, to tremble with the fear of their addressing to their younger victims some yet more infernal message or more vivid image than they had thought good enough for myself.
Mientras realizaba (por no tener alternativa) el ritual último y más inmundo de su humillación injustificada -o, dicho con otras palabras, mientras las circunstancias de su vida milagrosamente salvada se hacían más infernales y escandalosas-, Saladin Chamcha empezó a advertir que los tres funcionarios de inmigración ya no se conducían de un modo tan extraño como al principio.
Even as he was performing (having no option) the latest and basest ritual of his unwarranted humiliation, – or, to put it another way, as the circumstances of his miraculously spared life grew ever more infernal and outré – Saladin Chamcha began to notice that the three immigration officers no longer looked or acted nearly as strangely as at first.
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