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Las fuerzas extrañas by Leopoldo Lugones in the original Spanish, with our English translation beside every sentence and a dictionary on every word.
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How Las fuerzas extrañas begins
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No éramos sino tres amigos.
Los dos de la confidencia, en cuyo par me contaba, y el descubridor de la espantosa fuerza que, sin embargo del secreto, preocupaba ya a la gente.
El sencillo sabio ante quien nos hallábamos, no procedía de ninguna academia y estaba asaz distante de la celebridad.
Había pasado la vida concertando al azar de la pobreza pequeños inventos industriales, desde tintas baratas y molinillos de café, hasta máquinas controladoras para boletos de tranvía.
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We were but three friends.
The two confidants, in whose pair I counted myself, and the discoverer of the frightful force which, despite the secret, already preoccupied the people.
The simple sage before whom we found ourselves came from no academy and was far from celebrity.
He had spent his life, at the whim of poverty, devising small industrial inventions, from cheap inks and coffee grinders to controlling machines for streetcar tickets.
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About Las fuerzas extrañas
Leopoldo Lugones's 1906 collection is one of the founding books of fantastic and science fiction in Spanish: a quiet inventor who discovers a terrible force, a rain of fire over an ancient city, an ape taught to speak. Short, strange and exact.
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Las fuerzas extrañas
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