Agregamos una versión provisional debajo del original. Las partes subrayadas en fondo amarillo, no fueron pronunciadas en el speech de Burroughs al momento de grabar...
Salud!
lacl
I was there. I saw it. I saw women thrown down on Fifth Avenue and raped in
their mink coats by blacks and whites and yellows while street urchins stripped
the rings from their fingers. A young officer stood nearby. "Aren't you
going to do something?" I demanded.
He looked at me and yawned.
I found Colonel Bradshaw bivouacking at the Ritz. I told him bluntly what was going on. His eyes glinted shamelessly as he said, "Well you have to take a broad general view of things."
And that's what I have been doing. Taking a broad general view of American troops raping and murdering helpless civilians while American officers stand around and yawn.
"Been at it a long time, lady. It's the old army game from here to eternity."
He looked at me and yawned.
I found Colonel Bradshaw bivouacking at the Ritz. I told him bluntly what was going on. His eyes glinted shamelessly as he said, "Well you have to take a broad general view of things."
And that's what I have been doing. Taking a broad general view of American troops raping and murdering helpless civilians while American officers stand around and yawn.
"Been at it a long time, lady. It's the old army game from here to eternity."
This license was dictated by considerations
taken into account by prudent commanders throughout history.
It pays to pay the boys off. Even the noble Brutus did it...
Points with his left hand in catatonic limestone.
"The town is yours soldiers brave."
Tacitus describes a typical scene... "If a woman or a good looking boy fell into their hands they were torn to pieces in the struggle for possession and the survivors were left to cut each others' throats."
"Well, there's no need to be that messy. Why waste a good-looking boy? Mother loving American Army run by old women, many of them religious, my God; hanging Amercian soldiers for raping and murdering civilians..."
Old Sarge bellows from here to eternity.
"WHAT THE b***** f****** HELL ARE CIVILIANS FOR?
SOLDIERS' PAY."
*******
Una versión literal, provisional...
lacl
Points with his left hand in catatonic limestone.
"The town is yours soldiers brave."
Tacitus describes a typical scene... "If a woman or a good looking boy fell into their hands they were torn to pieces in the struggle for possession and the survivors were left to cut each others' throats."
"Well, there's no need to be that messy. Why waste a good-looking boy? Mother loving American Army run by old women, many of them religious, my God; hanging Amercian soldiers for raping and murdering civilians..."
Old Sarge bellows from here to eternity.
"WHAT THE b***** f****** HELL ARE CIVILIANS FOR?
SOLDIERS' PAY."
*******
Una versión literal, provisional...
lacl
Mildred Pierce informando:
Yo estuve ahí. Yo lo vi. Vi a mujeres arrojadas a la Quinta
Avenida y violadas en sus abrigos de visón por negros, blancos y amarillos
mientras los erizos de la calle se quitaban los anillos de los dedos. Un joven
oficial estaba cerca. "¿No vas a hacer algo?" Exigí.
Me miró y bostezó.
Encontré al coronel Bradshaw acampando en el Ritz. Le conté sin
rodeos lo que estaba pasando. Sus ojos brillaron descaradamente cuando dijo:
"Bueno, tienes que tener una amplia visión general de las cosas".
Y eso es lo que he estado haciendo. Tomando una amplia visión
general de las tropas estadounidenses violando y asesinando civiles indefensos
mientras los oficiales estadounidenses hacen una pausa y bostezan.
"Estuve en esto mucho tiempo, señora. Es el viejo
juego del ejército desde aquí hasta la eternidad".
Esta
licencia fue dictada por consideraciones tomadas en cuenta por comandantes
prudentes a lo largo de la historia.
Vale la pena pagar a los niños. Incluso el
noble Brutus lo hizo...
Puntos
con su mano izquierda en piedra caliza catatónica.
"La
ciudad es suya, valientes soldados".
Tácito describe una escena típica... "Si una mujer o
un niño apuesto caen en sus manos, se despedazarán en la lucha por su posesión
y los sobrevivientes quedarán prestos para cortar otras gargantas".
"Bueno, no hay necesidad de ser tan atropellados. ¿Por
qué desperdiciar a un guapo muchacho? Y la madre amorosa de la armada americana
dirigida por ancianas, muchas de ellas religiosas, Dios mío; ahorcando soldados
estadounidenses por violar y asesinar a civiles..."
El viejo Sarge grita desde aquí hasta la eternidad.
"¿PARA QUÉ SON LOS MALDITOS CIVILES?
PARA LA PAGA DE LOS SOLDADOS ".
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