For, since a purely musical work contains none of those logical sequences, the interruption or confusion of which, in spoken or written language, is a proof of insanity, so insanity diagnosed in a sonata seemed to him as mysterious a thing as the insanity of a dog or a horse, although instances may be observed of these.
zeren musika hutsezko obra batek ezin baitu berez, mintzairak ez bezala, ezein harreman logikoren alteraziorik erakutsi eromenaren salagarri; beraz, sonata baten barruan igarritako balizko eromenari zeharo gauza misteriotsua zeritzon, zakur eme baten eromena edo zaldi baten eromena izan zitezkeèn bezainbat, halakoak ere ikusi ohi diren arren.