But when these contacts persist and multiply about one unique being, to the point of embracing him entirely, when each fraction of a body becomes laden for us with meaning as overpowering as that of the face itself, when this one creature haunts us like music and torments us like a problem (instead of inspiring in us, at most, mere irritation, amusement, or boredom), when he passes from the periphery of our universe to its center, and finally becomes for us more indispensable than our own selves, then that astonishing prodigy takes place wherein I see much more an invasion of the flesh by the spirit than a simple play of the body alone.
baldineta gorputz baten aurpegia ez-ezik gainerako parte guztiak ere hainbat esangura asaldagarriz beterik agertzen bazaizkigu; baldin-eta izaki bat eta bederak, bakarrik narritadura, atsegina edo gogaitasuna iradoki beharrean, musika batek bezala zirikatzen bagaitu edota problema batek bezala alhatzen bagaitu; gure unibertsoaren periferiatik erdi-gunerantz igarotzen bada, geure burua baino ere ezinbestekoago bilakatzeraino iristen zaigularik..., orduan gertatzen da mirari txundigarri hori, zeinean, haragiaren joko xinple bat baino areago, izpirituak haragiaren baitan buruturiko inbasio bat bait dakusat.