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him that it had changed more than he had changed Se había vuelto casi calvo y en un principio creyó
inside. The emotions it registered would be que tenía el pelo cano, pero era que el color de su
different from the ones he felt. He had gone cuero cabelludo estaba gris. El cuerpo entero,
partially bald. For the first moment he had thought excepto las manos y la cara, se había vuelto gris
that he had gone grey as well, but it was only the como si lo cubriera una vieja capa de polvo. Aquí
scalp that was grey. Except for his hands and a y allá, bajo la suciedad, aparecían las cicatrices
circle of his face, his body was grey all over with rojas de las heridas, y cerca del tobillo sus varices
ancient, ingrained dirt. Here and there under the dirt formaban una masa inflamada de la que se
there were the red scars of wounds, and near the desprendían escamas de piel. Pero lo
ankle the varicose ulcer was an inflamed mass with verdaderamente espantoso era su delgadez. La
flakes of skin peeling off it. But the truly cavidad de sus costillas era tan estrecha como la
frightening thing was the emaciation of his body. de un esqueleto. Las Piernas se le habían encogido
The barrel of the ribs was as narrow as that of a de tal manera que las rodillas eran más gruesas
skeleton: the legs had shrunk so that the knees were que los muslos. Esto le hizo comprender por qué
thicker than the thighs. He saw now what O’Brien O'Brien le había dicho que se viera de lado. La
had meant about seeing the side view. The curvatura de la espina dorsal era asombrosa. Los
curvature of the spine was astonishing. The thin delgados hombros avanzaban formando un gran
shoulders were hunched forward so as to make a hueco en el pecho y el cuello se doblaba bajo el
cavity of the chest, the scraggy neck seemed to be peso del cráneo. De no haber sabido que era su
bending double under the weight of the skull. At a propio cuerpo, habría dicho Winston que se
guess he would have said that it was the body of a trataba de un hombre de más de sesenta años
man of sixty, suffering from some malignant aquejado de alguna terrible enfermedad.
disease.

‘You have thought sometimes,’ said O’Brien, ‘that — Has pensado a veces —dijo O'Brien — que mi
my face—the face of a member of the Inner Party— cara, la cara de un miembro del Partido Interior,
looks old and worn. What do you think of your own está avejentado y revela un gran cansancio. ¿Qué
face?’ piensas contemplando la tuya?

He seized Winston’s shoulder and spun him round Cogió a Winston por los hombros y le hizo dar la
so that he was facing him. vuelta hasta tenerlo de frente.

‘Look at the condition you are in!’ he said. ‘Look at — ¡Fíjate en qué estado te encuentras! —dijo —.
this filthy grime all over your body. Look at the dirt Mira la suciedad que cubre tu cuerpo. ¿Sabes que
between your toes. Look at that disgusting running hueles como un macho cabrío? Es probable que ya
sore on your leg. Do you know that you stink like a no lo notes. Fíjate en tu horrible delgadez. ¿Ves?
goat? Probably you have ceased to notice it. Look Te rodeo el brazo con el pulgar y el índice. Y
at your emaciation. Do you see? I can make my podría doblarte el cuello como una remolacha.
thumb and forefinger meet round your bicep. I ¿Sabes que has perdido veinticinco kilos desde
could snap your neck like a carrot. Do you know que estás en nuestras manos? Hasta el pelo se te
that you have lost twenty-five kilograms since you cae a puñados. ¡Mira! — le arrancó un mechón de
have been in our hands? Even your hair is coming pelo —. Abre la boca. Te quedan nueve, diez,
out in handfuls. Look!’ He plucked at Winston’s once dientes. ¿Cuántos tenías cuando te
head and brought away a tuft of hair. ‘Open your detuvimos? Y los pocos que te quedan se te están
mouth. Nine, ten, eleven teeth left. How many had cayendo. ¡¡Mira!!
you when you came to us? And the few you have
left are dropping out of your head. Look here!’