CHAMBER 1
In the background there is an old picture with the sea painted, they have brought the planks to repair a boat that was borrowed by some neighbors, several things were bought, for the trip, water knobs, a considerable amount of formalin was brought to throw it into the sea in case of sharks, when in reality the saltpeter and the rising waves make the boat shudder with two metal tanks, blue, sealed, previously coupled with sailor's knots.
The light is intensifying (they have put an additional spotlight to highlight the skin and the shine of the sweat).
-What would become of life there, of the thousands of opportunities, which perhaps we won't have either.
- Are you afraid? - I asked.
- Just a little.
- It is normal to fear the unknown. - I told him with my eyes fixed on the sea.
- Fear is not what worries me, what I really need is to get there. - Evelyn was barely heard to say.
- Why so much desire?
- She is there.
- She is?
- Yes, my mother, she went in search of a dream and she's dying.
- So it went badly?
- Worse than you imagine.
They get into the boat and heavily manage to get a few meters away from the shore. The extra spotlight goes out and the light hanging from the top (perhaps it is the moon) bathes them with another intensity, the words, now, take, like the light, another tonality.
- What if you don't find it? -I said looking at the moon.
- I believe in God the creator father.
- But she never wrote to you, or so I heard you say once.
- A friend wrote to me, saying he had seen her asking for pesetas.
- Over there everything is immense.
- Something tells me I'm going to find her, no matter what.
- Well, I can help. For the first time, I could see her blue eyes, the perfection of her mouth, the well-known pythoness lines, what was newer, more erotic and contoured. Like those of one of the actresses in a Cowboys movie seen as a child, on an old black and white TV set at the Chinese Motel.
- It would be too much to ask.
- Not at all, I've thought enough of myself, I'd like to help others. -I looked at her as if she had terminal cancer.
CAMERA 1 (OFF RECORD)
- And I saw people screaming
- their eyes red from crying
- and then the machine came
- and then I realized that Loki had fought with the black Mendez.
- What kind of shit is that?
- Which ones?
- The one where you fuck with the nigga Mendez
- the fucking dog dying and even getting kicked
- but nobody looked
- everybody left
- what
- they all went to fuck
- and she
- who
- the one with the machine
- that's Evelyn
- and what she wants
- you to take her with you
- go to hell
- no, let me finish
- Fuck you.
- you have no fucking idea who she is
- shut up
- she's the daughter of
- Shut up you crazy motherfucker
- you never understand
- Shut up.
- Ok, take her, if not for me, do it for her.
- Loki, you don't even exist.
- I can see you.
- It's the one thing that won't change.
- And then take her.
- And then I take her.
- And you take care of her.
- and then I take care of her
- and don't fuck it up
- and I fuck her up
- and you ask her
- and I don't ask her
- and don't kill her
- and I kill her
- and I take off her dress (always pink), I destroy her like a puppet, the parts move indistinctly and the blue eyes are multiplying, the ants in millions march on her neck, they have begun to pierce her skin, the tits bloom like roses with the water drops of the morning mist, I begin to smell every cubic centimeter, every hemicycle of epidermis, every grain of sand (future) every moan (torn away, in the future) every vision of the moon and the ship, in the ancestral and terrible night.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
CAMARA 1
Al fondo hay un viejo cuadro con el mar pintado, han traído los tabloncillos para reparar un bote que fue prestado por algunos vecinos, se compraron varias cosas, para el viaje, pomos de agua, se trajo una cantidad considerable de formol para echarlo al mar en caso de tiburones, cuando en realidad el salitre y las olas crecientes hacen estremecer el bote con dos tanques de metal, azules, sellados, acoplados previamente con nudos de marinero.
La luz se va intensificando (han puesto un foco adicional para resaltar la piel y el brillo del sudor)
–Qué sería de la vida allá, de las miles de oportunidades, que tal vez tampoco tendremos.
– ¿Tienes miedo? – Le pregunté.
– Sólo un poco.
– Es normal temer a lo desconocido. – Le dije con los ojos fijos en el mar.
– El miedo no es lo que me preocupa, lo que realmente necesito es llegar. – Apenas se le escuchó decir a Evelyn.
– ¿Por qué tanto deseo?
– Ella está allá.
– ¿Ella?
– Sí, mi madre, se fue en busca de un sueño y está muriendo.
– ¿Entonces le fue mal?
– Peor de lo que imaginas.
Se montan en el barco y pesadamente logran alejarse unos metros de la orilla. Se apaga el foco adicional y la luz que cuelga de lo más alto, (quizás sea la luna) los baña con otra intensidad, las palabras, ahora, toman como la luz, otra tonalidad.
– ¿Y que pasa si no la encuentras? –le dije mirando la luna.
– Creo en Dios padre creador.
– Pero ella nunca te escribió, o eso te oí decir alguna vez.
– Me escribió un amigo, diciendo que la había visto pidiendo pesetas.
– Allá todo es inmenso.
– Algo me dice que la voy a encontrar, como sea.
– Bueno, yo puedo ayudar. –Por primera vez, veía su ojos azules, la perfección de su boca, las líneas de pitonisa tan conocidas, lo que más nuevas, más eróticas y contorneadas. Como las de una de las actrices de una película de Cowboys vistas cuando niño, en un viejo televisor blanco y negro en el Motel de los chinos.
– Sería mucho pedir.
– Para nada, ya he pensado lo suficiente en mí, me gustaría ayudar a los demás. –la miré como si tuviera cáncer en fase terminal.
CAMARA 1 (OFF RECORD)
– Y vi la gente gritando
– los ojos rojos de llorar
– y entonces llegó la máquina
– y entonces me doy cuenta de que Loki había peleado con el negro Méndez
– ¿Qué mierdas son esas?
– ¿Cuáles?
– esa donde te fajas con el negro Méndez
– el maldito perro muriendo y aún siendo pateado
– pero nadie miró
– todos se fueron
– qué
– que todos se fueron a la mierda
– y ella
– quién
– la de la máquina
– esa es Evelyn
– y qué quiere
– que la lleves contigo
– vete a la mierda
– no, déjame acabar
– a la mierda
– no tienes ni puta idea de quien es ella
– cállate
– ella es la hija de
– cállate loco de la grandísima madre
– tú nunca entiendes
– cállate
– ok, llévala, si no es por mí, hazlo por ella
– Loki tu ni siquiera existes
– yo puedo verte
– es lo único que no va a cambiar
– y entonces llévala
– y entonces la llevo
– y la cuidas
– y entonces la cuido
– y no la jodas
– y la jodo
– y le preguntas
– y no le pregunto
– y no la mates
– y la mato
– y le quito el vestido (siempre rosado), la destruyo como una marioneta, las partes se mueven indistintamente y los ojos azules se van multiplicando, las hormigas en millones marchan sobre su cuello, le han comenzado a perforar la piel, las tetas florecen como las rosas con las gotas de agua de la neblina matinal, comienzo a oler cada centímetro cúbico, cada hemiciclo de epidermis, cada grano de arena (futuro) cada gemido (arrancado, en el futuro) cada visión de la luna y el barco, en la noche ancestral y terrible.
I could not fail to mention a thousand times @wakeupkitty.pal, who is always with pen and brushes in hand, creating and motivating others. It is great to help in silence. With little recognition. Sleeping little and giving a lot. In the service of art. Such is his greatness. Honor to whom honor is due.
To @aneukpineung78
This reminds me of the playwriting we practised weeks, or is it months ago, with the freewriters at @grebmot's request. It was a great exercise (I scrolled through the collected Tales & Stories and noticed how many good writers we had in 2024 and how many of them disappeared. Probably carried away by life itself and some changed their names for the third time 🤐)
Considering you translate your texts: It's interesting how the translation uses the word "fuck" in all its aspects. Is English not as rich when it comes to vocabulary or is Cuban Spanish similar? One word good for a legion of interpretations.
The story leaves me with a head full of thoughts.
Where is it that the boat hopes to hit land? Who knows, maybe they will come across "Women on Waves". How quickly do blue eyes get pesetos thrown at them? Never?
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The translation is extremely bad. I would like you to recommend a better translator. It strays too far from what I write at times. Just to give you an example:
The one where you fuck with the nigga Mendez.
Which translates fuck, in this sentence what I am talking about is fighting (arguing)
and don't fuck it up in this one translates as no la cagues, and what I wrote is no la molestes.
and so an infinity of little mistakes.
a @hefestus
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I don't use translators. I speak and write the languas I speak and write and that's it.
El qué ya te he dicho és que és muy importante tener el original para que uno pueda entender, incluso algo que na vá tan bien traducido.
De resto, yo no utilizo traductores. No creo que sirvan bien si no estamos traducindo para una lengua que dominamos. Siempre habrá correciones a hacer.
Esa explicación me hace entende todo el tema mucho mejor. Para el traductor todo eso és fuck. :D
Fuerte abrazo!
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I leave you the original. Maybe you will enjoy more what was not said the first time jj.
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I bet I will.
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About translators, I think @afrog can suggest you one. I can't remember the name of the one he suggests. Can you help us here, Froggy?
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You are welcome and can take Perplexity as well to translate. The AI uses DeepL, because it is the worlds best translator for German-English.
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Thank you, frog.
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I will try one of the translators included in the IAs, maybe it will improve the text a bit.
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I found a very violent and disturbing feeling on this text. Why so many fucks?
Still, the thought process is amazing.
Kudos.
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