I was careful not to point out how this hardly tallied with her avowed dislike of trying to save things, objects, from the inevitable death that awaited "them as well", and in particular of Perotti's mania for preserving them. What I wanted was to make her talk about her room;
Jakina, ez nion ohartarazi esaten ari zen guztia nekez zetorrela bat gauzak eta objetuak haiei ere itxaroten dien noraezeko heriotzatik eta, batez ere, Perottiren gordetzeko maniatik denbora apur batez bederen libratzeko edozein ahalegin egiteari zion higuin aitortuarekin.