Certainly one quality which nowadays has been best forgotten-and that is why it will take some time yet for my writings to become readable-is essential in order to practise reading as an art-a quality for the exercise of which it is necessary to be a cow, and under no circumstances a modern man!
Jakina, irakurketa horrela arte gisa praktikatzeko ezer baino lehenago, gaur hain zuzen, ahantziena den zerbait behar da-eta horregatik iragan behar du denborak oraindik nire idatziak "irakurgarri" izateko-, horretarako ia behi izan behar da eta, nolanahi ere, ez "gizaki moderno":