he kept thinking that while he was there unloading cases and boxes, in the darkness of the earth the slow, silent mushrooms, known only to him, were ripening their porous flesh, were assimilating underground humors, breaking the crust of clods.
pentsatzen zuen bera han, fardel eta kaxak deskargatzen zebilen bitartean, lurpeko iluntasunean, ziza isil, geldi, berak bakarrik ezagutzen zituenak mami harroa ondu, lurpeko zukuak irentsi eta lur zokorren azal zakarra apurtzen ari zirela.