Monster

Monstre és un conte escrit com a text per a un examen, per a l'anàlisi de les conjuncions subordinants. Després, els meus amics (Rubén Cambra) del bloc La guarida del escriba van creure oportú publicar-lo. Alba Ferrero Navarro, que és alumna meua, en va fer el dibuix i la meua companya Ester Oliver va revisar el text en anglès. Total, ací teniu el resultat.

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MONSTER

Dibuix: Alba Ferrero // Text: Vicent Enric Belda

Although that may sound absolutely impossible,

if you are able to look at the monster

with eyes of a child,

you can still recognize the innocent being

that inhabits within him.

Do memory, I beg, you people should remember!

He was a boy when he horribly amputated his own ears

since he could not bear your merciless teasing.

He cut his tongue because it seemed

that his poignant cries of pain displeased you.

He finally took off his both eyes

so as to his pitiful glance could not bother you anymore.

Shall we throw the monster in the dark pit of death,

but we should keep in mind that,

despite his hideous appearance,

none of us is better than him.

MONSTRE

Malgrat que puga semblar del tot impossible, si sou capaços de mirar el monstre amb ulls d’infant, podreu reconèixer l’ésser innocent que encara l’habita. Feu memòria, us ho suplico, recordeu! Ell era un nen quan es va amputar cruelment les orelles,  ja que no podia suportar les vostres despietades burles. Es va tallar la llengua perquè semblava que els seus commovedors crits de dolor us disgustaven. Es va arrancar tots dos ulls, finalment, perquè la seua mirada llastimosa no us poguera incomodar mai més. Llancem el monstre a l’obscur pou de la mort, però tinguem sempre present que, malgrat la seua horrorosa aparença, ningú de nosaltres no és millor que ell.