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Se habrían acostado ya aunque aún tendrían la luz encendida durante unos minutos, los que les concedíamos Luisa y yo de propina o prórroga para que también leyeran algo —un tebeo, unas líneas, un cuento— mientras los cazaba el sueño, es desdichado conocer las costumbres exactas de una casa de la que de pronto se falta y a la que no se vuelve más que de visita y con aviso previo y como un pariente cercano y de tarde en tarde, uno queda fijado en la tela de araña del escenario y el ritmo que construyó y lo albergaban y que parecían imposibles sin su contribución y sin su existencia, largo prisionero de lo presenciado y llevado a cabo tantas veces, y es incapaz de imaginar que se vayan produciendo cambios, aunque tenga conciencia de que no los impide nada y bien puede haberlos y aun procurárselos, y aprenda a sospecharlos abstractamente, cuáles podrían ser esos cambios que se darán en su ausencia y a sus espaldas, uno deja de asistir, ya no es partícipe ni siquiera testigo, y es como si hubiera sido expulsado del tiempo que avanza, convertido para uno ese tiempo en pintura helada o en memoria helada, desde la adversa distancia.
They would have gone to bed by now, although they would still have had the light on for a few minutes longer, which was what Luisa and I allowed them by way of extra time so that they could read something — a comic book, a few lines, a story — while sleep circled over them, it’s wretched knowing the precise habits of a house from which you are suddenly absent and to which you return now only as a visitor and always with prior warning or like a close relative and only occasionally, yet remain caught in the web of settings and rhythms that you established and which sheltered you and seemed impossible without your contribution and without your existence, the long-term prisoner of what was seen and done so many times, and you are incapable of imagining any changes, although you know there is nothing to prevent them and that they might well occur and might even be wanted, and you learn, in an abstract fashion, to suspect them, what could they be, those changes that will happen in your absence and behind your back, you cease to be present, you are no longer a participant or even a witness, and it’s as if you had been expelled from advancing time, which, seen from the disadvantage of distance, is transformed for you into a frozen painting or a frozen memory.
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