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Como muchos otros de su generación, había sido cura.
Like many others from his generation, this friend had once been a priest.
La gente de mi pueblo decía que tenía la capacidad de tranquilizar a cualquiera, y que debería haber sido cura, abogado o médico en vez de jugador.
People in my town used to say that he was capable of putting anyone at ease, and that he should have been a priest, a lawyer, or a doctor instead of a gambler.
Cuando tienes dinero pagas una copa y no cacareas. Yo debería haber sido cura y habría llamado todas las semanas el furgón de Morgan, con unos buenos tragos y un ama de casa con tetas como pirámides;
You buy a man a drink when you have the money and you don't do all this yelling about it I should have been a priest and have Morgan's van calling every week with lashings of drink and a housekeeper with boobs like pyramids.
Eso pensaba mientras recorría la parte del camino desde la cual se divisaba mejor el convento de monjas; y la idea de que sólo siendo cura podría librarse del Kanun se mezcló con las monjas, con las relaciones que según se contaba existían entre ellas y los curas jóvenes y con la posibilidad de una relación semejante entre él y una monja; pero recordó de pronto que tenían los cabellos cortados y algo se quebró en su fantasía, apartando su imaginación de ella. Así pues, sólo siendo cura podría escapar a toda relación con el Kanun, pensó.
He was thinking of that as he was going along the stretch of road from which the convent was clearly visible, and the thought that only if he had been a priest would he have been spared by the Kanun got mixed up with thinking about nuns and the relations that people said they had with the young priests, and with the idea of possibly having an affair with a nun himself, but he suddenly remembered that nuns cropped their hair and he dismissed that fantasy. But I would have had to be a priest, he thought, so as not to be subject to the Kanun.
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