Giampi Malnate (he blushed faintly, as he named him), Giampi Malnate kept insinuating that the studio, fixed up like this, was more like a garconniere than a studio, and, as a good communist, he thought that anyway things, in themselves, were at the most just palliatives, temporary ersatz substitutes, and he was on principle against palliatives and substitutes of every kind, and even against technique, whenever it seemed to be saying that a drawer that shut perfectly, just to give an example, solved all a man's problems, moral and political included.
Eta Giampi Malnate (piska bat gorritu egin zen izena aipatzean) alferrik saiatuko zen erdizka esaten horrela jantzitako estudio batek areago dirudiela garçonnière bat, berez estudioa baino, aditzera emanez, gainera, komunista on baten gisan, gauzek gehienez ere paliatiboak edo suzedaneoak baino ezin dituztela eman; bera edonolako paliatibo eta suzedaneoen aurka baitzegoen, printzipioz, baita teknikaren aurka ere, baldin eta teknika horrek, itxura batean, itxiera perfektuko kajoi bati utzi nahi badio, esate baterako, norbanakoaren arazo guztien konponketa, arazo moral eta politikoak barne.