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Supo que Daniel había amado la papirola.	He knew that Daniel had loved the kite.
Amo esa papirola, pensó, sorprendido de esa palabra.	I love that kite, he thought, surprised at the word.
Miró la papirola, se sirvió un mate.	He looked at the kite, he poured himself a mate.
Sí, la pared era el cielo de la papirola.	Yes, the wall was the kite's sky.
Una mañana, cuando se sintió preparado, Daniel decidió probar el vuelo en papirola.	One morning, when he felt he was ready, Daniel decided to try flying in the kite.
La papirola ni siquiera estaba hecha para volar, y menos con tanto peso encima.	The kite wasn't built to fly, still less with so much weight on it.
Le pedía a Daniel que no usara la papirola pero Daniel apagaba el televisor.	He was asking Daniel not to use the kite but Daniel switched the television off.
Tenían un ritmo, una melodía disonante que anunciaba que su padre estaba terminando la papirola.	It had a rhythm, a discordant melody which announced that his father was finishing the paper plane.
Aráoz despertó de madrugada, sabiendo que no izaría la papirola en el jardín.	Aráoz woke in the early hours of the morning, knowing that he wouldn't run up the kite in the garden.
Aráoz despertó de madrugada, sabiendo que no izaría la papirola en el jardín.	ArŠoz woke in the early hours of the morning, knowing that he wouldn't run up the kite in the garden.
Claro que su padre le había prohibido tocar la papirola, pero todos los padres eran aprensivos, y el suyo más que los demás.	Of course his father had forbidden him to touch the kite, but all fathers were nervous, and his more than others.
Vivían frente al mar y veía a menudo el arco iris, y ahora veía todos los colores del arco iris en la papirola.	They lived beside the sea and he often saw a rainbow, and now he saw all the colours of the rainbow in the kite.
Miraba por la ventana y veía la papirola volando entre las gaviotas y trataba de salir del televisor, pero el tubo catódico era una jaula.	He glanced out of the window and saw the kite flying among the seagulls and tried to get out of the television, but the cathode-ray tube was a cage.
Se puso a trabajar metódicamente, aprovechando una época del año en que había menos vecinos y menos changas, y poco a poco reconstruyó la papirola.	He set to work methodically, taking advantage of a time of year when he had fewer neighbours and fewer odd jobs, and slowly but surely he rebuilt the kite.
Daniel temió que su padre no supiera contestarle, y él necesitaba que le contaran qué se veía desde allá arriba, tanto como necesitaba remontar la papirola.	Daniel was afraid his father wouldn't know how to answer him, and he needed to be told what could be seen from up there, just as much as he needed to fly the kite.
La papirola no era una papirola, sino el nombre que ambos habían dado al proyecto secreto de su padre: un barrilete enorme donde un hombre podía volar colgándose de los travesaños.	The paper plane wasn't really a paper plane, just the name the two of them had given to his father's secret project: an enormous kite that could carry a man hanging from its cross-struts.
Daniel se metió en los intersticios de esta frase, meciéndose en la u de naturaleza, que era como una corriente de aire, agarrándose de las puntas de la x de exaltar, que era como los travesaños de la papirola.	Daniel wriggled inside the interstices of the phrase, swinging on the u of nature, which was like a current of air, gripping the tips of the x of exalting, which was like the cross-struts of the kite.
Con paciencia y esfuerzo descolgó la papirola, se la cargó sobre la espalda, recorrió las tres cuadras que lo separaban del acantilado, saludó elusivamente a los vecinos que se acercaban a preguntarle de dónde había sacado semejante barrilete.	With patience and some effort he lifted down the kite, hoisted it onto his back, walked the three blocks between the house and the cliff, evasively greeted the neighbours who came up to him to ask where he had got a kite like that.