you lost your way on that river as you would in a desert, and butted all day long against shoals, trying to find the channel, till you thought yourself bewitched and cut off for ever from everything you had known once-somewhere-far away-in another existence perhaps.
ibai horretan basamortuan bezala galduko zenuen bidea, eta egun osoan ibiliko zinen hondar-pilekin estropezuka, ubidea aurkitu nahian, harik eta liluraturik, behinola, oso urrunean, antza, beste bizialdi batean, apika, ezagutu omen zenituen gauza guztietatik isolatuta sentituko zinen arte.