Nailed to the beloved body like a slave to a cross, I have learned some secrets of life which are now dimmed in my memory by the operation of that same law which ordains that the convalescent, once cured, ceases to understand the mysterious truths laid bare by illness, and that the prisoner, set free, forgets his torture, or the conqueror, his triumph passed, forgets his glory.
gainerako uneetan sartzea debekaturik zaigun unibertso bat da berau, eta, sugarra itzali edo gozamena iraungi orduko, zeharo arrotz eta norabiderik gabekoa gertatzen zaigun unibertsoa, gainera. Gorputz maiteari iltzaturik, gurutzefikatu bat bere gurutzeari bezala, makina bat sekretu badut ikasia, jadanik oroimenean kamustuak dauzkadan sekretuak izan arren, amodio-arloan ere ahanzkortasuna bait da lege nagusia: