They became even more real to me when my father, by saying: "Well, you can stay in Venice from the 20th to the 29th, and reach Florence on Easter morning," made them both emerge, no longer only from the abstraction of Space, but from that imaginary Time in which we place not one, merely, but several of our travels at once, which do not greatly tax us since they are but possibilities,-that Time which reconstructs itself so effectively that one can spend it again in one town after one has already spent it in another-and consecrated to them some of those actual, calendar days which are certificates of the genuineness of what one does on them, for those unique days are consumed by being used, they do not return, one cannot live them again here when one has lived them elsewhere;
"Beraz, apirilaren 20tik 29ra bitarte gera zintezkete Venezian, eta Florentziara Pazko igandeko goizean iritsi", atera zituenean bi hiriok, Espazio abstraktutik ez ezik, baita irudimenezko Denboratik ere, Denbora horretatik non kokatu ohi baitugu ez bidaia bakar bat, baizik eta baita beste andana bat ere, aldi berean, nahiz eta emozio handiegirik gabe, posibilitate huts besterik ez direlako-bere burua hain ongi berrekoizten duen Denbora horretatik, alegia, non hiri batean xahu baitaiteke lasai asko, beste batean xahutua izan ondoren-, eta esleitu zienean bi hiriei egun-sorta jakin bana, horixe baita egunok enplegatzen diren helburuen zinezko benetakotasun-agiria, zeren egun bakan jakin horiek kontsumitu egiten baitira baliatuak izatean, ez baitira atzera berriz itzultzen, ezin baitira hemen berriro bizi han biziak izan ondoren;