Frame houses were spaced far back from a wide main street, then a sudden knot of stores, the lights of a drugstore behind fogged glass, the fly-cluster of cars in front of the movie theater, a dark bank on a corner with a clock sticking out over the sidewalk and a group of people standing in the rain looking at its windows, as if they were some kind of a show.
Zurezko etxe banakatuak kale nagusi zabaletik nahiko urrun, gero bat-batean dendagune txiki bat, drugstore bateko argiak kristal gandutuaren atzean, auto mordoa zinematoki baten aurrean, banketxe ilun bat etxe-kantoian, ordularia espaloira irtenda, eta jende-talde bat euripean, banketxeko leihoei begira, ikuskari moduko batean baleude bezala.