A short fragment from " El amor en los tiempo del colera " Of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
" Do You want stay alone? " " He asked"
Then, He extended his frozen fingers searching in a blind way for the other hand, found it waiting for him. Both of them were so much lucid to realize, in a itself fleeting instant, that neither of the hands were the one that they had imagined before themselves touch each other, but two hands of old bones, but in the next instant they are yet. She started to talk about Her dead husband, in present tense, as if He was alive, and Florentino Ariza learned in that moment that was the time for she asking herself with dignity, greatness, with irrepressible desires for living, what have to do with the love remained without owner.
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Las anotaciones azules: O no hay una manera buena traducirlo, o no sé qué significa.
A short fragment from " El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera " by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
"Do You want stay alone?" " He asked."
Then, he extended his frozen fingers searching in a blind way the dark, searching by touch for the other hand, and found it waiting for him. Both of them were so much lucid enough to realize, in a itself that fleeting instant, that neither of the hands were the one that they was as either had imagined prior to feeling its touch before themselves touch each other, but rather two hands of old bones. But in the next instant they are yet. She started to talk about her dead husband, in the present tense, as if he were alive, and Florentino Ariza learned knew in that moment that for her as well, was the time had arrived for her to be she asking herself with dignity, with courage greatness, with the irrepressible desires for to live, living, what have to do with the love remained that she had guarded without owner. <----- Although this is the literal translation, I think you want something more like, "... guarded for the husband for the husband that had left her." Unfortunately, this is much less poetic.
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-¿Quieres quedarte sola?-preguntó.
Entonces, él extendió los dedos helados en la obscuridad, buscó a tientas la otra mano, y la encontró esperándolo. Ambos fueron bastante lúcidos para darse cuenta, en un mismo instante fugaz, de que ninguna de las dos era la mano que habían imaginado antes de tocarse, sino dos manos de huesos viejos. Pero en el instante siguiente ya lo eran. Ella empezó a hablar del esposo muerto, en tiempo presente, como si estuviera vivo, y Florentino Ariza supo en ese momento que también a ella le había llegado la hora de preguntarse con dignidad, con grandeza, con unos deseos incontenibles de vivir, qué hacer con el amor que se le había quedado sin dueño.
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