In those days and that neck of the woods you still saw lots of horse-drawn carriages, children on donkeys, other children kicking up dust, and cars full of soldiers on furlough, always in desperate haste, between two trains, to track down the women strolling on the side paths, raising more dust in their hurry to go to dinner and make love, jumpy, oily, peering this way and that, tormented by the implacable clock and the lust for life.
Oraindik franko topatzen ziren alderdi haietan zalgurdiak eta ume batzuk asto gainean eta beste ume batzuk hautsa harrotzen, eta permisoko soldaduak bete-bete egindako kotxeetan, gelditu gabe emakume jabegabeak bilatzen, bidexketan barrena, tren bat joan eta bestea etorri artean, are hauts gehiago harrotzen, afaltzera joan eta larrua jotzeko berantetsiak, artega eta liskatsu, goaitan, ordu urrikigabeak eta bizi-irritsak axatuak.