'Disappointment' by Enid Blyton.
domingo, 16 de mayo de 2021
'Disappointment' by Enid Blyton.
jueves, 13 de mayo de 2021
DOS DE CRONOPIOS Y SUS TRADUCCIONES
Alegría del cronopio
Costumbres de los famas
Sucedió que un fama bailaba tregua y bailaba catala delante de un almacén lleno de cronopios y esperanzas. Las más irritadas eran las esperanzas porque buscan siempre que los famas no bailen tregua ni catala sino espera, que es el baile que conocen los cronopios y las esperanzas.
Los famas se sitúan a propósito delante de los almacenes, y esta vez el fama bailaba tregua y bailaba catala para molestar a las esperanzas. Una de las esperanzas dejó en el suelo su pez flauta -pues las esperanzas, como el Rey del Mar, están siempre asistidas de peces flauta- salió a inprecar al fama, diciéndole así:
-Fama no bailes tregua ni catala delante de este almacén.
El fama seguía bailando y se reía.
La esperanza llamó a otras esperanzas, y los cronopios formaron corro para ver lo que pasaría.
-Fama -dijeron las esperanzas-. No bailes tregua ni catala delante de este almacén.
Pero el fama bailaba y se reía, para menoscabar a las esperanzas.
Entonces las esperanzas se arrojaron sobre el fama y lo lastimaron. Lo dejaron caído al lado de un palenque, y el fama se quejaba, envuelto en sangre y su tristeza.
Los cronopios vinieron furtivamente, esos objetos verdes y húmedos. Rodeaban al fama y lo compadecían, diciendole así:
-Cronopio cronopio cronopio.
Y el fama comprendía, y su soledad era menos amarga.
By Julio Cortázar
Englished by Sandra Dermark
Chronope meets fame at Marks & Spencer sale.
"Good evening fame. Truce, katala, expect."
"Chronope chronope?"
"Chronope chronope."
"Thread?"
"Two reels. A blue one."
The fame considers the chronope. He will never speak until he knows he's got the right words, fearing that hopes, always on the lookout, will not glide though the air (those shiny little bugs!) and invade the chronope's kind heart due to a word spoken wrong.
"Rainy outside," the chronope says. "All of the sky."
"Don't worry," the fame replies. "We'll leave in my car. To protect those reels of thread."
And he stares into the air, but there's not a hope in sight, and he sighs in relief. He likes, as well, to observe the heartwarming joy of the chronope, who presses the reels of thread (a blue one) to his chest and expects impatiently that the fame will invite him into his car.
CUSTOMS OF THE FAMES
It once happened that a fame danced the truce dance and the katala dance in front of a store full of chronopes and hopes. Most ticked off were the hopes, since they always expect fames not to dance the truce dance or the katala dance but the expect dance, the only one known to chronopes and hopes. Fames stand in front of stores on purpose, and this particular fame was dancing the truce dance and the katala dance to annoy the hopes. One of the hopes left her flutefish on the floor (hopes, just like King Neptune, are always aided by flutefish) and came forth to scold the fame, addressing him like this:
"Fame, do not dance the truce dance or the katala dance in front of this store."
The fame kept on dancing and laughing. The hope called for the other hopes, while the chronopes flocked around to see what the outcome of it all would be.
"Fame," all the hopes said, "do not dance the truce dance or the katala dance in front of this store."
But the fame kept on laughing and dancing still to disturb the hopes. Then the hopes struck the fame down and injured him. They left the fallen fame by a fence, and the fame complained, clad in his own blood and sorrow.
The chronopes stole closer guiltily, those humid green beings. They flocked around the fame and warmed his heart addressing him like this:
"Chronope chronope chronope..."
The fame understood, and his loneliness felt easier.
LA LLUVIA Y LAS PLANTAS, Y OTROS CUENTOS
LA LLUVIA Y LAS PLANTAS
Caía la lluvia. Zarandeaba el viento las ramas de los árboles. La niña, cansada de su encierro, habló a la lluvia desde la ventana de su habitación:
(Anónimo - Febrero, día 9; 365 cuentos de Susaeta)
LA LLUVIA Y EL BUEN TIEMPO
LA LLUVIA Y EL BUEN TIEMPO
THE DOLL YOU LOST / LA MUÑECA QUE PERDISTE
The Doll You Lost
miércoles, 12 de mayo de 2021
THE DANCING STAR - CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 5 of THE DANCING STAR (Ending)
Then all three, Roger Rococo Rose-Without-a-Thorn, Othello Meow, and Adelade the Star, felt something tear at their insides, but at the same time they realised that it was quite pleasant. It was a wish, which is like a little caterpillar crawling all over your heart by night and day, singing the song "Come and fetch me with the dance of the buzzer-buzzers at the bottom of the rabbit hole." As their faces and hands began to fill with tiny wishes and hopes, a fog moistened their cheeks, they began to disappear among their hopes and wishes. Thus they disappeared into such a distant place, such a nearby place, that they shall nevermore return. If you ever let go of a balloon or see it fly, now you know where they go and who is their keeper.
If you want to head for this land, the Land of Nevergothere Ifyousurelywon'treturn, remember! When you get up in bed someday and see that at your place everything remains like it was ever before. The rooftop is on top, like ever before. And therefore the moon beams with a long and lustful kiss upon the crystal waters of Prussian blue of the blue river of Prussian crystal, just like the eyes of Othello Meow when he looks at the deep soft horizon. And dig hopefully in your garden, with a khaki-coloured and red-polka-dotted dream in your hearts. You should not be surprised if you see a little head, a tiny baby star, pop up and address you:
"Good morning to you! I am Adelade the Star!"
There are nights when the sky seems to drop very close to us on Earth. Sometimes on April or August nights, the stars look like numbers. They look like the Maths chickenscratch of a doll or a young girl who has just begun school and is beginning to learn, and this is because, above everything else, always the highest and utmost of goals were, are, and will be the stars.
*** finis***
THE DANCING STAR - CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 4 of THE DANCING STAR
After being with our three friends sliding up and down the Rainbow Slide, they began to chase a cotton candy cloud they had seen passing by, and the trio lost them from sight. The merry apprentice witches were hopeless.
Above Roger Rococo Rose-Without-a-Thorn, Othello Meow, and Adelade the Star there came a thin purple haze that spread as light as a bridal veil, and a thousand lilywhite crystal snowflakes began to fall all over the valley. And the great show of the ice ghosts of the first snows of winter was a prelude to the white sheet that spread towards the Lake of Balloons. The Lake of Balloons was a large lake full of balloons of every size and colour. The popcorn spirits were their gatherers. And those who cared about the balloons to sort them according to size, shape, and colour, but above all, what they liked the most was playing with them. The oldest and wisest spirit, who knew the most about these balloons, was Adolphus Kindred-Spirit. Not only did he partake in the gathering of balloons, he had another task he enjoyed a lot; he gathered in a water tower the sweet rainwater, the treat which popcorn spirits are most fond of. Adolphus Kindred-Spirit, who had quite the sweet tooth, was always kissing the tap of the water tower.
Roger Rococo Rose-Without-a-Thorn, Othello Meow, and Adelade the Star were very fond of asking questions, and they asked solely for asking's sake, and Adolphus Kindred-Spirit replied only for replying's sake:
"Where are all these balloons from? And what are they?" asked the three friends.
"These balloons," responded Adolphus Kindred-Spirit, "are wishes. Mrs. Autumn Fog makes them, as well as some winds that dedicate themselves to these duties. The Sunrise Wind makes the blue balloons, while the Sunset Wind makes the yellow ones. The North-by-Northwest Wind makes the green and red balloons. Though they are also flowers, who grew weary of being rooted and then became balloons. That's why there are poppy balloons, jasmine-scented balloons... Balloons are also foam, and they are formed exactly in the same way that soap bubbles are. Long long time ago, balloons were bubbles that coursed down the waters, the waters of the Shampoo River. But the winds saw the bubbles and told them: 'Now you are a balloon. Come with me to see the wide world.' Balloons are hopes. Hopes which people keep eagerly in their hearts. And they flutter from place to place within the heart, hoping to escape, and when they escape the Lord of Twilight turns them into balloons. That grey balloon over there, with the sad cheekbones and the cherry-red eyes, was once a young gentleman," Adolphus Kindred-Spirit carried on, very excitedly. "In the bleak midwinter he put on a straw boater hat and walked the streets while singing. In summer he had his hair styled like a pompadour and walked the streets while laughing and singing. All of these things he did were outlawed by the laws of his homeland. But this was not the worst thing that occurred to him. He sneezed in a place full of people in front of whom it is advised not to sneeze, and the law sentenced him to death by hanging. And as soon as the executioner tied the noose around his neck, he turned into a balloon and some wind brought him hither."
"And are there always so many balloons?" asked Roger Rococo Rose-Without-a-Thorn.
"Now there are quite few new ones," replied Adolphus Kindred-Spirit, "it's been ages since the last ones arrived, it seems that as time goes by there are fewer and fewer wishes, and fewer bubbles and flowers and hopes."
"But sometimes," said Adelade the Star, "wishes do come true. And flowers are for real as well. And hope flutters from heart to heart like a butterfly in springtime, like a burst of colour which fills your eyes with dreams."

