and I grew strangely and passionately eager in the pursuit of my dark and mysterious researches, for the sake of which, I well knew, the searcher must abjure and repudiate culture and decency and morality.
eta nire ikerketa iluntsuari irrika bitxiaz ekiten nion, eginkizun honetan ikertzaileak beragandik kultura, gizabidea eta morala uxatu behar dituela argi neukalarik.