That night he had a terrible dream, if dream is the right word for a bodily and mental experience which did indeed overtake him during deepest sleep, in complete independence of his will and with complete sensuous vividness, but with no perception of himself as present and moving about in any space external to the events themselves; rather, the scene of the events was his own soul, and they irrupted into it from outside, violently defeating his resistance-a profound, intellectual resistance-as they passed through him, and leaving his whole being, the culture of a lifetime, devastated and destroyed.
Gau hartan amets beldurgarri bat izan zuen, baldin eta amets deitzerik baldin badago bera lo betean zegoela gertatu zitzaion gorputza eta izpirituaren abentura bati, egia da, bere eskukotasun eta zentzu-presentzia erabatekoan, baina bere burua presente ikusi gabe edo espazioan mugitzen, gertakariez aparte; izan ere hauek eszenatokitzat bere arima areago baitzeukaten eta, kanpotik sartzean, beren kontrakarra-kontrakar sakon eta izpirituzkoa-zakarki porrokatu zuten, eta beren atzetik, sakailaturik, deuseztaturik utzi zuten bere existentzia, bere bizitzako kultura.