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Invisible Cities by
Italo Calvino in the voice
of a native |
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Click on PLAY to listen / Pulsa en REPRODUCIR |
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Para obtener una traducción textual al español acerca la flecha de tu ratón a las palabras resaltadas. |
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Isaura, city of the thousand wells, is said to rise over a deep, subterranean lake. |
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On all sides, wherever the inhabitants dig long vertical holes in the ground, they succeed in drawing up water, as far as the city extends, and no farther. |
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Its green border repeats the dark outline of the buried lake; an invisible landscape conditions the visible one; everything that moves in the sunlight is driven by the lapping waves enclosed beneath the rock's calcareous sky. |
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Consequently two forms of religion exist in Isaura. The city's gods, according to some people, live in the dephts, in the black lake that feeds the underground streams. |
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According to others, the gods live in the buckets that rise, suspended from a cable, as they appear over the edge of the wells, in the revolving pulleys, in the windlasses of the norias, in the pump handles, in the blades of the windmills that draw the water up from the drollings, in the trestles that support the twisting probes, in the reservoirs perched on stilts over the roofs, in the slender arches of the aqueducts, in all the columns of water, the vertical pipes, the plungers, the drains, all the way up to the weathercocks that surmount the airy scaffoldings of Isaura, a city that moves entirely upward. |
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Acerca de la Pronunciación |
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El orador es nativo de Torino, Italia, y
se observa un fuerte acento italiano en su pronunciación. Cabe mencionar
que hablar inglés con propiedad no
significa "hablar sin
acento". Todos alguna vez hemos
escuchado a extranjeros hablando
español con absoluta propiedad, a
pesar de que lo hablan con su acento nativo. |
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