"To save his money, the bourgeois begins sacrificing all the possible instruments of his salvation; then he sacrifices that very same money to save himself; until his naked idiocy and his idiotic nakedness drag him, a deplorable and comical victim, to a deserved gallows."
The original Spanish is:
ReplyDeleteEl burgúes entrega el poder para salvar el dinero; después entrega el dinero para salvar el pellejo; y finalmente lo ahorcan.
Cf. Notas, pp. 110-111:
ReplyDelete"To save his money, the bourgeois begins sacrificing all the possible instruments of his salvation; then he sacrifices that very same money to save himself; until his naked idiocy and his idiotic nakedness drag him, a deplorable and comical victim, to a deserved gallows."