One night (I was eleven years old at the time) he came and shook me from my sleep and announced, with the same grumbling laconism that he would have employed to predict a good harvest to his tenants, that I should rule the world.
Gau batean niregana etorri, iratzar nendin iharrotsaldi bat eman eta munduaren inperioa neureganatu egingo nuela iragarri zidan, etxaldeko baserritarrei uzta ona izango zutela aurre-esateko erabiliko zukeen lakonismo zakar marmarati berbera erabiliz iragarri ere.