Good God, I thought, so now I am to be initiated, and made to feel at home in this world of idlers and pleasure seekers, a world that is utterly strange and repugnant to me and that to this day I have always carefully avoided and utterly despised, a smooth and stereotyped world of marble-topped tables, jazz music, cocottes and commercial travelers!
Jainko maitea, pentsatzen nuen, giro honetan sartu behar dut eta bertako bihurtu, gautxorien eta artista jendearen mundu arrotz eta higuingarri, arreta osoz ihes egin eta hain bihotzetik mexprezatu dudan mundu honetan, marmolezko mahai, jazz musika, kokotte, merkatari bidaiarien mundu azaluts klitxeturiko honetan!