12 mayo, 2010

De 'Matadero 5' de Kurt Vonnegut.


"Hell no," said Kilgore Trout. "You think money grows on trees?"
Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer."

"Ni cagando, " dijo Kilgore Trout. "Crees que el dinero crece en los árboles?"
Casualmente, Trout había escrito un libro sobre un árbol que producía dinero. Sus hojas eran billetes de veinte dólares. Sus flores eran bonos del gobierno. Sus frutos eran diamantes. Atraía a los seres humanos, quienes se mataban alrededor de sus raíces y servían como un excelente abono."

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