He could not explore the idea further, for a sudden access of that mental lethargy which was, with him, congenital, intermittent and providential, happened, at that moment, to extinguish every particle of light in his brain, as instantaneously as, at a later period, when electric lighting had been everywhere installed, it became possible, merely by fingering a switch, to cut off all the supply of light from a house.
Ezin izan zuen ideia hartan sakondu, zeren berarengan guztiz berezkoa eta noizbehinkaria bezain probidentziala zèn gogo-nagitasunaren oldarraldi batek une horretantxe itzali baitzuen beraren adimenean argi oro, gerora, nonahi argindar elektrikoa paratu zenean, etxe osoko argitasuna istant batean eten ahal izango zèn bezain tupustean.