Since Odette never gave him any information as to those vastly important matters which took up so much of her time every day (albeit he had lived long enough in the world to know that such matters are never anything else than pleasures) he could not sustain for any length of time the effort to imagine them; his brain would become a void;
Odettek inolako argitasunik ematen ez zionez bera egunero hainbeste ardurarazten zutèn gauza garrantzitsu haiei buruz (nahiz eta Swann aski bizi izana izan, plazerez beste ezer sekula ez dagoela jakiteko beste, bederen), ezin izaten zion luzaroan haien irudikapenari eutsi, trikatu egiten zitzaion burmuina, hutsaren hurrengoraino makaldurik;