But ever since, more than a year before, discovering to him many of the riches of his own soul, the love of music had been born, and for a time at least had dwelt in him, Swann had regarded musical motifs as actual ideas, of another world, of another order, ideas veiled in shadows, unknown, impenetrable by the human mind, which none the less were perfectly distinct one from another, unequal among themselves in value and in significance.
Baina, urtebete baino gehiago ere bazelarik, bere arimako hainbat aberastasun idoroaraziz, musikaren maitasuna berarengan denbora baterako bederen sortua zela, Swannek benetako ideiatzat zeuzkan musika-pasarteak, beste mundu batekoak, beste ordena batekoak, ilunpez estaliak, ezezagunak, adimenarentzat iragazgaitzak, baina ez haatik bata bestetik bereizezinak, balioz eta esanguraz guztiz ezberdinak baizik.