La Época - Saturday, June 1, 1895
This report was originally published in Spanish. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
La causa contra Oscar Wilde ha terminado, siendo éste condenado á dos años de trabajos forzados. Algunos de nuestros lectores no sabrán en lo que esto consiste en Inglaterra, y merece referirse. A los condenados á aquella pena se los coloca en una rueda de noria, cuyos canjilones son escalones que se les obliga á subir constantemente. El peso de las personas hace moverse á la rueda en sentido contrario, haciendo infructuoso, por consiguiente, el esfuerzo de aquélla para adelantar, y quedando siempre en el mismo sitio. Un módico regula el tiempo que puede soportar este trabajo cada condenado y el descanso que se le ha de conceder, durante el cual están sujetos al régimen del silencio y del aislamiento completo.
Es de suponer que el elegante y amadamado poeta encuentre poco de su gusto la nueva vida que va á emprender.
MANRIQUE DE LARA.
The case against Oscar Wilde has ended, the latter being sentenced to two years of hard labor. Some of our readers will not know what this consists of in England, and it deserves to be referred to. Those sentenced to that penalty are placed in a Ferris wheel, whose canjilones are steps that they are forced to constantly climb. The weight of the people makes the wheel move in the opposite direction, making its effort to overtake fruitless, and always remaining in the same place. A modico regulates the time that each convict can endure this work and the rest that must be granted, during which they are subject to the regime of silence and complete isolation.
Presumably the elegant and beloved poet finds the new life he is about to undertake little to his liking.
LARA MANRIQUE.