I let shoes be shoes, and it seemed to me that the distracted phase of mind I had just experienced dated from a long-vanished period, maybe a year or two back, and was about to be quietly effaced from my memory. I began to observe the old fellow.
zapatak bakean utzi nituen, eta une batzuk lehenago aurkitu nintzeneko aldartea aspaldian gertaturiko zerbait bezala agertu zitzaidan, agian urte pare bat lehenagokoa, eta nire oroimenetik pixkana-pixkana desagertzen ari zen, ureari begiratzeari ekin nion.