1... línea - Second Line Infantry Division
2 tal vez ... germánica - perhaps impelled by his Germanic
blood
3 la dicha ... músicas - the dash and grace of certain
music
4 el hábito de estrofas - the familiar stanzas
5 Martín Fierro: - famoso poema gauchesco de Hosé
Hernández: una de las obras capitales de la literatura
argentina.
6 una ... imagen - he continually recalled the
image
7 las Mil y una Noches de Weil - Weil's edition of The
Thousand and One Nights
8 le ... infierno - it astonished him that they did not know
he was in Hell
9 lo iluminaron ... vértigo - they shined bright lights on
him until he was blind and dizzy
10 tenía ... pozo - was similar to a well
11 pudo ... infierno - he came to understand that he had
merely been, up to then, in a suburb of Hell
12Dahlmann ... destino - Dahlmann burst out in tears of
self-pity for his fat
13 las modestas diferencias - the modest variety
14 Dahlmann ... firme. - Dahlmann was in the habit of saying
that this is no more convention, and that whoever crosses that street
enters a more ancient and harsher world.
15 Yriguyen: Hipólito Yrigoyen (o Irigoyen), Presidenie de
Argentina (1916-22; 1928-30)..
16 aquel contacto Instante - that contact was illusory and
that they were as if separated by a pane of glass, because man lives in
time, in successión, and the magic animal [1ives] in the present, in the
eternity of the intant.
17 tan ... desdicha - so closely connected to the history of
his misfortune
18 Shahrazad: Scheherazade. En las Mil y una noches,
es la hija del visir del Rey Ahahriyar. Se casa con el rey, pero evita la
muerte que es el destino común de sus esposas diciéndole los relatos que
comprenden la obra. interrumpiéndolos en un punto interesante cada noche y
continuándolos la próxima.
19 era ... servidumbres - it was as if he weretwo men at
once: the one who travelled through the autumn day and through the
geography of the fatherland. and the other one, locked up in a sanitarium
and subject to methodical servitude
20 porque ... literario - because his actual knowledge of
the countryside was greatly inferior to his nostalgic and literary
knowledge
21 Alguna vez durmió - From time to time he slept
22 Menos ... cosas - Less to avoid fatigue than to make
those things [the walk, the setting sun, the plain] last
23 Pablo y Virginia: Paul et Virginie, un
rcmance escrito por el autor francés Bemardin de St. Pierre, publicado en
1787.
24 creyó... patron - thought he recognized the
shopkeeper
25 EI hombre ... jardinera - After the man had heard
Dahhnann's story, he said that he would have the carriage hitched up for
him
26 estaba ... eternidad - he seemed outside of time, in
eternity
27 gauchos ... Sur -gagauchos like that no longer exist
except in the South
28 La oscuridad ... campo - The darkness began to cover the
plain
29 Ocioso ... soñolienta. - Relaxed, he relished the tart
flavor [of the wine], and let his gaze, now somewhat drowsy, wander about
the place.
30 Dahlmann ... buscando. - Dahlman pushed the proprietor
aside, confronted the peones, and asked them what they were
after.
31 A un paso ... lejos. - Almost in Juan Dahlmann's face, he
shouted insults, as if he were very far away.
32 pero su esgrima..- adentro but his knife play went no
farther than the notión that aill strokes should be directed upward, with
the [knife] edge held inward
33 Vamos saliendo - Let s get
going
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