by a supreme muscular effort, a long way in excess of my real strength, stripping myself, as of a shell that served no purpose, of the air in my own room which surrounded me, I replaced it by an equal quantity of Venetian air, that marine atmosphere, indescribable and peculiar as the atmosphere of the dreams which my imagination had secreted in the name of Venice;
gimnasia goren ene indar orotatik haratagokoan, oskol ezdeus batez bezala eranzten nintzen inguratzen ninduèn gelako aireaz eta, haren ordez, hura bezainbat veneziar aire-hats arnasteari ekiten nion, egurats itsastar hura, ametsetakoa bezain ezin esanezko eta ezin nahasizkoa, nire irudimenak Venezia izenean giltzapetua zuena, eta nigan des-haragitze miragarri bat sumatu nuen mamitzen;