And so it was that, for a long time afterwards, when I lay awake at night and revived old memories of Combray, I saw no more of it than this sort of luminous panel, sharply defined against a vague and shadowy background, like the panels which a Bengal fire or some electric sign will illuminate and dissect from the front of a building the other parts of which remain plunged in darkness:
Horrela, bada, luzaroan, gauez iratzarri eta Combrayz berroroitzen nintzenean, ez nuen besterik berrikusten mihise-atal argitsu hura baino, ilunpe nahasien erdian ageri, Bengalako su baten edo zeinahi proiekzio elektrikoren argi-ingurumenak, gainerako alde guztiek gau ilunean murgilduta dirauten eraikin batean, argiztatzen eta ebakitzen duenaren antzekoa: