It is true that, when morning drew near, I would long have settled the brief uncertainty of my waking dream, I would know in what room I was actually lying, would have reconstructed it round about me in the darkness, and-fixing my orientation by memory alone, or with the assistance of a feeble glimmer of light at the foot of which I placed the curtains and the window-would have reconstructed it complete and with its furniture, as an architect and an upholsterer might do, working upon an original, discarded plan of the doors and windows; would have replaced the mirrors and set the chest-of-drawers on its accustomed site.
Banekien zein zen ni nengoèn gela hura, neure inguruan berreraikia nuen ilunpetan, izan ere-dela oroimen hutsaz neure burua norabidetuz, dela, argibide gisa, ozta-ozta sumaturiko argi-zirrinta mehe batez baliatuz, zeinaren oinetan kokatzen bainituen gurutzadurako errezelak-, oso-osorik nuen berreraikia eta altzariz hornitua, arkitekto batek eta tapizari batek egin ohi duten bezala, leihoei eta ateei beren jatorrizko irekiguneak gordez, ispiluak ere eskegiak nituen atzera, eta komoda bere ohiko tokian birjarria.