lurpia

EN Only now, as he grew older, and sat staring at his father in an impotent rage, it was not him, that old man reading, whom he wanted to kill, but it was the thing that descended on him -- without his knowing it perhaps: that fierce sudden black-winged harpy, with its talons and its beak all cold and hard, that struck and struck at you (he could feel the beak on his bare legs, where it had struck when he was a child) and then made off, and there he was again, an old man, very sad, reading his book.
GL Soamente que agora, segundo ía medrando e contemplaba ó seu pai alí sentado coa súa impotente carraxe, non era a aquel vello que lía a quen quería matar, senón a aquilo que descendía sobre el... sen que se cadra se decatase: aquela súbita e fera lurpia de negras ás, de poutas e peteiro fríos e duros, que atacaba unha e outra vez (podía senti-lo peteiro nas súas pernas espidas, onde o atacara cando neno) e que logo desaparecía, e alí volvía quedar el, un vello, moi triste, a le-lo seu libro.
Fonte: CAR (2926)

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