Before him there lay spread out the whole field of life, like a sort of Arabian Nights-a picture made up of the Nevski Prospect, Gorokhovaia Street, countless tapering spires, and a number of bridges apparently supported on nothing-in fact, a regular second Nineveh.
Bat-batean, aurrean dauka argia, bizitzaren zelaia, Scheherazade liluragarri bat, nolabait esateko. zubiak esekirik daude deabruak daki nola, batere euskarririk gabe, ulertzen?; hitz batean, Semiramis bat, jaun agurgarri hori, bene-benetako Semiramis bat!