And so, forgetting the function of sidewalks and zebra stripes, Marcovaldo was moving through the streets with a butterfly's zig-zag, when all of a sudden the radiator of a sports car going at eighty miles per hour missed his hip by a fraction of an inch.
Horrela, espaloien eta oinezkoentzako pasabide marratuen zertarakoaz ahazturik, kalez kale zebilen Marcovaldo albo-alboka, tximeleta baten antzera, eta hara non, orduantxe, hankatik milimetro batera iritsi zitzaion orduko ehunera ziztuka zihoan deportibo baten erradiadorea.