The low antarctic sun of midnight peered redly from the southern horizon through rifts in the jagged ruins, and the terrible age and deadness of the nightmare city seemed all the starker by contrast with such relatively known and accustomed things as the features of the polar landscape.
Antartikako gauerdiko eguzki baxu eta gorrixka hegoaldeko zeruertzean ageri zen hondakin irregularren hutsarteetan, eta amesgaiztoko hiri mortuak gordin-gordin erakusten zituen bere adin ikaragarria eta hondamena, ohituak geunden paisaia polarraren ezaugarri nolabait ezagunei kontrajarrita.