Now whether these short and occasional hours of happiness balanced and alleviated the lot of the Steppenwolf in such a fashion that in the upshot happiness and suffering held the scales even, or whether perhaps the short but intense happiness of those few hours outweighed all suffering and left a balance over is again a question over which idle persons may meditate to their hearts' content.
Ea zorion ordu labur, urri hauek gisa horretan pisuaren bi alderdiak berdinduz estepako otsoaren zoria berdindu eta arintzen zutenentz, edota ordu gutxi horietako zorion labur baino bortitzak atsekabe guztiak rresten zizkion eta gehigarri bat ematen ote zion, hori zereginik ez duen jendeak harrotu dezakeen galdera bat da.