One of our younger novelists, Ramón Pérez de Ayala, in his recent novel, La Pata de la Raposa, has told us that the idea of death is the trap, and spirit the fox or the wary virtue with which to circumvent the ambushes set by fatality, and he continues:
Gure elaberrigile gazte batek, Ramón Pérez de Ayalak, bere oraintsuko elaberrian, La pata de la raposa-n, heriotzaren ideia lakioa dela diosku;