Indeed, the more precisely he circumscribed his sensations with his thoughts, the more familiar they became to him, the stranger and more incomprehensible he felt them to be, so that it no longer even seemed as though they were retreating from him and more as though he himself was moving away from them, while remaining unable to shake off the notion that he was coming closer to them.
Bai, bere sentsazioak-ezagunago bihurtuz-pentsamenduekin zenbat eta estuago inguratu, hainbat eta arrotzagoak eta ulertezinagoak iruditzen zitzaizkion aldi berean, eta ez zirudien orduan berarengandik atzera egiten zutenik, baizik eta bera haiengatik urruntzen zela, hurbiltzen zitzaielako irudipena ezin baztertu bazezakeen ere.