“I took my head in my hands and thought.
There must be some way of reading this riddle. What did Scudder mean by steps?
I thought of dock steps, but if he had meant that I didn’t think he would have
mentioned the number. It must be some place where there several satircases, and
one marked out from the others by having thirty-nine steps.
But if it was a little port I couldn’t see what
the steps signified. Ther were no sets of staircases on any harbour that I had
ever seen. It must be some place with a particular staircase identified, and
where (...). On the whole it seemed to me that the place must be a (...). But the
staircases kept puzzling me.”
Créditos:
Extracto del capítulo IX The Thirty-Nine Steps, de la obra de
John Buchan The 39 Steps, tomado de
la edición realizada en 2011 por Penguin Books en su colección Pocket Penguin Classic (pág. 124), de la
hemeroteca del autor.
Fotografía de una escalera interior, en
el antiguo edificio de Tabacalera, en
Valencia, en agosto de 2013, del autor, en la cual, en el tramo que habitualmente
utiliza éste, el total de escalones es de treinta y… tres.
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