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Y en topando cualquiera de ustedes con un libraco de historia o sucedido, de ésos que tienen el forro colorado, ya no ha de saber dejarlo de la mano hasta apurar si D. Fulano, el de los ojos dormidos y pelo crespo, es hijo o no de su padre, y si se casa o no se casa con la joven boquirrubia que se muere por sus pedazos, y que es cuando menos sobrina del Papamoscas de Burgos: todo mentiras.
The redundant que as employed by the various characters in the play would make a profitable study in idiomatic Spanish speech. *Papamoscas de Burgos*: a popular carved figure that forms part of the mechanism of a clock in the famous cathedral at Burgos, Spain. The *papamoscas* comes out at certain hours just as do the figures in a cuckoo clock.
Since the stories about the *Papamoscas* are, to the sophisticated, pure inventions, to speak of the niece of the *Papamoscas* is from Bruno's point of view, at least, to indicate the highest degree of improbability. *San Juan de Dios*: reference to the clock in the neighboring tower of the monastery of St. John of God.
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