I looked at them all, one by one, uncles and aunts and cousins, most of whom were to be swallowed up in the German crematoria within the next few years; not that they dreamed, of course, of ending up that way, and neither did I imagine it, but none the less even then, that evening, their poor faces looked to me so dingy under their respectable little hats, framed in their respectable permanent waves, and I knew their minds to be so obtuse, so utterly unable to see what the present really meant and to read into the future, that they already appeared to me wrapped round in the same aura that now enfolds them in my memory-mysterious, statuesque, predestined;
Osaba-lehengusuei begiratzen zien banan-banan, inondik ere imajinatu gabe, ez nik eta ez haiek ere, handik zenbait urtetara haietako askok alemaniarren errausteko labeetan amaituko zutela; hala eta guztiz ere, jada orduan, gau hartan, hutsaren hurrengo iruditzen zitzaizkidan arren kapela burgesez jantzitako edo permanente burgesez apaindutako beren aurpegi arloteekin, jakin arren buru-kamuts samarrak, gaurko egunaren egiazko irismena baloratzeko eta biharkoa irakurtzeko ezgauza zirela, jada orduan agertzen zitzaizkidan orain oroimenean daukaten fatalitate estatuario misteriotsu berberaz inguratuta.