sábado, 9 de junio de 2012

The heartless translator

Clockwork Heart Luke, by Luca Baggio
(http://lucabaggio.blogspot.com.ar)
All rights reserved
Pequeño texto que encontré en la página de Facebook de translartisan.


Once upon a time, there was this poor translator with a worn-out heart. After living a thousand loaned lives and riding the frantic roller coaster of getting into and out of the skin of a myriad of characters penned and fleshed out by others, after spending a thousand sleepless nights and dreaming of unsolvable ambiguities and impossible deadlines when he did get some sleep, the fibers of his heart had gotten threadbare.

Doctors were helpless at fixing such a life-threatening problem, until one of them came up with the idea of the clockwork machine. It was implanted right inside the hollow space that used to hold his heart, and it started working right away—tick, tack; tick, tack. The translator soon recovered his health, but never got his magic back. He was still able to translate to the best of his mind, but he was missing a heart. And a heart is not something a translator can do without.

The heartless translator,
by Nora Torres, May 2012 

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