I would still find it there, on one walk after another, always in the same helpless state, suggesting certain victims of neurasthenia, among whom my grandfather would have included my aunt Léonie, who present without modification, year after year, the spectacle of their odd and unaccountable habits, which they always imagine themselves to be on the point of shaking off, but which they always retain to the end; caught in the treadmill of their own maladies and eccentricities, their futile endeavours to escape serve only to actuate its mechanism, to keep in motion the clockwork of their strange, ineluctable, fatal daily round.
pertsona horiek, beren ondoezen eta egoskorkerien engranajean harrapatuak izanik, berauetatik askatzeko egiten dituzten alferrikako ahaleginek ez baitute beren dietetika arraro, saihestezin eta adur txarrekoaren karrakaren funtzionamendua abiarazi eta ziurtatu besterik egiten.