Proyecto Final: Transducción Entre Idiomas
And not just human
beings, but fish, animals, birds, and stakes, and in the vegetable kingdom plants so inclined
are set close together with nothing in between, because herbalists and farmers have decided
they too have their males and females. What do you say to that, Pármeno? You little
innocent abroad, you pearl among the sine, my simple Simon, my lickle wet behind the
ears! Ooh, is my little terrier going to bite? Come here, you horny hobbledehoy, you know
nothing of the world and its pleasures. Damned if I'm going to let you get me hot and bothered
at your age! Your voice's broke, your chin's stubbly and I bet the thing at the bottom of you
belly is stiff and twitching.'
`Like a scorpion's,' retorted the young lad.
`And that's not the half of it. A scorpion's bite doesn't swell, and yours will swell a
lass for nine months.'
`Ha, ha, ha.'
(Bush p 20-21)