the thoughts made themselves felt within him perhaps as the overwhelming desire to give up the race makes itself felt within a marathon runner, when halfway through he discovers that shamefully (and moreover through his own fault, his own blunders) he is losing.
halako asmoa bere baitan ernetzen zitzaion, maratoi-korrikalariaren baitan lasterketa bertan behera uzteko irrika ernetzen den bezalaxe lasterketa erdian, lotsa-lotsa eginda, galdu egingo duela konturatzean (bere erruagatik, bere akatsengatik galdu ere).