and suddenly it seemed to him that, in fact, all the people he had met in this town were only ink lines spreading on a blotter, beings with interchangeable attitudes, beings without firm substance;
eta bat-batean iruditu zitzaion, azken finean, lan berrian ezagututako jende guztia xukapaperean blaitutako lerroak baizik ez zirela, jarrera trukagarrietako izakiak, funts tinkorik gabeko izakiak;