But these words, as they dived down through the waves of sleep in which Swann was submerged, did not reach his consciousness without undergoing that refraction which turns a ray of light, at the bottom of a bowl of water, into another sun; just as, a moment earlier, the sound of the door-bell, swelling in the depths of his abyss of sleep into the clangour of an alarum, had engendered the episode of the fire.
Izan ere, hitz hauek, Swann murgildua zegoèn loaren uhinetara sarturik, saihesbidez iritsiak baitziren beronen kontzientziaraino, ur hondoan argi-izpi bat eguzkia dela irudiarazten digun desbideratze bortitz horren parekoa jasan ondoren soilik, hala nola istant bat lehenagoko txilin-hotsak ere, ametsaren amildegietan deiadar baten ozentasunaz gizenduak, sutearen episodioa sorrarazia baitzuen.