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08/01/2014

Bárbara García Perez

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“My knee did not bend and the leg dropped straight from the knee to the ankle without a calf, and the machine was to bend the knee and make it move as riding a tricycle. But it did not bend yet, and instead the machine lurched when it came to the bending part. The doctor said:" That will all pass. You are a fortunate young man. You will play football again like a champion."
In the next machine was a major who had a little hand like a baby 's. He winked at me when the doctor examined his hand, which was between two leather straps that bounced up and down and flapped the stiff fingers, and said: "And will I too play football, captain-doctor?" He had been a very great fencer, and before the war the greatest fencer in Italy.
The doctor went to his office in a back room and brought a photograph which showed a hand that had been withered almost as small as the major 's, before it had taken a machine course, and after was a little larger. The major held the photograph with his good hand and looked at it very carefully "Very interesting, very interesting," the major said, and handed it back to the doctor. […]
There were three boys who came each day who were about the same age I was. They were all three from Milan, and one of them was to be a lawyer, and one was to be a painter, and one had intended to be a soldier, and after we were



Bibliography: Baugh, Albert C. and Thomas Cable. 2002. A History of the English Language. London: Routledge Pyles, Thomas and John Algeo. 1982. The Origins and Development of the English Language. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

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