Too bad, though, that when he lay like this, his gaze didn't fall on a prospect of trees and sky alone, so that in sleep his eyes would close on a view of absolute natural serenity. Before him, foreshortened, a tree was followed by the sword of a general from the height of his monument, then another tree, a notice-board, a third tree, and then, a bit farther, that false, flashing moon, the traffic-light, still ticking off its yellow, yellow, yellow.
Horrela egonda, ordea, begien aurrean zuhaitz eta zeruen ikuspegia bakar-bakarrik ez izatea, horixe zuen pena, loak ezingo baitzizkion itxi begiak naturazko erabateko baretasunean murgildutako ikuskizun batez; aitzitik, haren aurrean zut, zuhaitz bat, monumentu baten gaineko jeneral baten ezpata, beste zuhaitz bat, iragarki publikoetarako oholtzarra eta hirugarren zuhaitz bat pasa ziren segidan, eta gero, zertxobait urrunago, semaforoko ilargi faltsu dizdizari hura, bere Noria, Noria, Noria aletzen jarraitzen zuena.