there was no choice but to accept the orders given me by this illness, which had suddenly become my master, and to consent to a long period of inaction, if not of rest, limiting the perspectives of my life for a time to the frame of a bed.
Ia-ia lotsatu ere egiten nintzen, gaixotasun hura ez baitzen agerikoa edo nabarmena, guztiz barnekoa eta ia ikustezina baizik, ez sukarrik, ez zornakatzik, ez erraietako minik ez bainuen inondik ere;