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The rain fell for a third day,

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and they barely had time to deal
with the crabs crawling into the house;

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together they beat them with sticks,
and then Pelayo

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dragged them through a flooded yard
and threw them into the sea.

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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

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Together they beat them with sticks,

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and then Pelayo dragged them through a
flooded yard and threw them into the sea.

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Based on the eponymous short story
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Belarusfilm
NPO "tsentr" (Studio AFTS) 1989

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Since Tuesday, it had been
the same dismal picture:

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sea ​​and sky had come together in
some kind of ash-gray mass;

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the sands of the beach, which on March
nights glimmered like powdered light,

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had become a stew of mud
and rotting shellfish.

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Pelayo ran to get his wife Elisenda,

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who was putting compresses
on a sick child.

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Together they gazed
in a mute stupor...

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Together they gazed in a mute stupor
at the creature lying in the mud.

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He was dressed like a ragpicker.

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Several strands of faded hair
stuck to his bald skull,

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his mouth had almost no teeth,

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and there was no grandeur
at all in his form.

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Soon everyone knew that Pelayo was
holding captive a flesh-and-blood angel.

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No one raised a hand to kill him,

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although an all-knowing neighbor woman
claimed that modern angels

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were none other than surviving
fugitives from heaven

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and members of an ancient
conspiracy against God.

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[PROTOCOL]

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The parish priest became suspicious

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when he saw that this thing does not
understand the language of God

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or know how to greet His ministers.

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Looking closer, he found that
he was much too human,

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this alleged angel:

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he had an unbearable smell
of the outdoors,

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his wings were strewn with parasites,

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his large feathers had been
worn out by terrestrial winds,

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and nothing at all
in his beggarly appearance

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measured up to the proud
dignity of angels.

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Father Gonzaga reminded them of
the dangers posed by credulity.

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He reminded them that the devil had the
bad habit of resorting to carnival tricks

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to confuse the unwary.

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Finally, the Padre judiciously argued that
if wings were not an essential element

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in determining the difference
between a hawk and an airplane,

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they were even less so for the
recognition of this thing as an angel.

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Nevertheless, he promised
to write a letter...

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write a letter to his bishop so that
the latter would write his primate

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and he in turn to the Pope

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so that the final verdict
would thus come down

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from the very highest tribunal.

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Finally he managed to gain altitude

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and Elisenda let out a sigh of relief,
for herself and for him,

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when she watched him fly over
the last houses of the village,

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almost touching the roofs,

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and wildly flapping his wings,
like those of some senile hawk.

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Elisenda watched him until
she was through cutting the onions,

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until he was no longer visible at all,

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and was no longer an annoyance

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in her life, but just an imaginary dot
on the horizon of the sea.

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THE END (1989)
subs - Chapaev, Eus, Niffiwan 2019/2023,
partly using Gregory Rabassa's translation