But in our part of the world cities lie along the seacoast or on rivers, they recline on the landscape, awaiting the traveler, while this American city had nothing languid about her, she stood there as stiff as a board, not seductive at all, terrifyingly stiff.
Baina gurean, aizu, etzanda egoten dira hiriak, itsas ondoan edo ibai bazterrean, paisaian luzatuak, zain egoten zaizkio bidaztiari. Hura, berriz, Amerikako hura, ez zegoen etzanda, bai zera, tente askoa zegoen hor, ez batere narraztaria, beldurgarrizko moduan tentetua.