But what this art-blind bungler could never have done was to execute those sketches in a strange and assured technique perhaps superior, despite haste and carelessness, to any of the decadent carvings from which they were taken-the characteristic and unmistakable technique of the Old Ones themselves in the dead city's heyday.
Baina, inoiz ezin izango zituen (arterako trebea ez izanik, gainera) zirriborro haiek halako teknika arrotz eta seguruaz egin: arin eta arreta handirik gabe eginda ere, seguruenik jatorrizko erliebe dekadenteen teknika baino hobea, Antzinakoen beren hiri mortuaren garai goreneko teknika berezi eta nahastezina.