But now that I have come so far, and standing as I do on the extreme verge of life where the ground falls away before me into bottomless darkness, I should do wrong and I should lie if I pretended to myself or to others that that machine still revolved for me and that I was still obedient to the eternal child's play of that charming world.
Baina nik, hain urrutira joan eta bizitzaren azken mugan, bizitza amaibako iluntasunean amiltzen den lekuan nagoen honek, oker jokatzen dut eta gezurra diot, mekanika horrek niretzat ere balioko balu bezala, betiko jolasezko haur mundu xarmant horretako partaide banitz bezala, neure burua eta gainerakoak engainatzen saiatzen naizenean.