that, quite contrary, it is like a horse that has broke from his rider, who voluntarily runs into a much more violent career than any horseman would put him to, and creates me so many chimaeras and fantastic monsters, one upon another, without order or design, that, the better at leisure to contemplate their strangeness and absurdity, I have begun to commit them to writing, hoping in time to make it ashamed of itself.
alderantziz, zaldi laxatuaren pare, inorengatik sekula izan ez duena baino ehun aldiz lan gehiago ematen diola bere buruari; eta hainbeste zorakeria eta buru-buztan gabeko ideiez erditzen zait, dena tropelka eta nahas-mahas, non neure oldez haien ezteusa eta bitxikeriari beha egoteko, paperean ezartzen hasi bainaiz, azkenean ahalketuko dudalako esperantzarekin.