But names present to us-of persons and of towns which they accustom us to regard as individual, as unique, like persons-a confused picture, which draws from the names, from the brightness or darkness of their sound, the colour in which it is uniformly painted, like one of those posters, entirely blue or entirely red, in which, on account of the limitations imposed by the process used in their reproduction, or by a whim on the designer's part, are blue or red not only the sky and the sea, but the ships and the church and the people in the streets.
Baina izenek pertsonez-eta hiriez, pertsonak bezain banako eta bakan direla sinestarazten digutenez-irudi nahasi bat besterik ez digute aurkezten, irudi bat, izenotatik, izenen ozentasun egutera nahiz laiotzetik, kolore bat ateratzen duena, irudia uniformeki tindatzen duena, horma-irudi horietako bat iduri, erabat urdin edo erabat gorri ohi diren horietakoa, zeinetan, erabilitako prozeduraren baliabide mugatuengatik edo dekoratzailearen apetaren batengatik, urdinak edo gorriak ageri baitira, zerua eta itsasoa ez ezik, baita ontziak, eliza edo oinezkoak ere.