Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.
Itsasotik gertu beste edozein lekutan baino konplexuagoa da denbora, zeren, eguzkiaren jiratzeaz eta urtaroen joan-etorriaz gainera, denboraren igarotzea markatzen baitute uhinek arroketan, eta, klepsidra eskerga batek nola, gora eta behera egiten baitu itsasoak.