This wood of witchery, in which men's faces turned black and white by turns, in which their figures first swelled into sunlight and then faded into formless night, this mere chaos of chiaroscuro (after the clear daylight outside), seemed to Syme a perfect symbol of the world in which he had been moving for three days, this world where men took off their beards and their spectacles and their noses, and turned into other people.
Sorginkeriazko oihan hura, zeinean gizonen aurpegiak aldika beltz eta zuri bilakatzen baitziren, zeinean haien figurak aurrena eguzki-argiz blai baitzeuden eta gero berehala gau itxuragabean galtzen baitziren, argi-ilunezko kaos huts hura (kanpoko egunargi distiratsuaren ondoren) hiru egunez bera mugitua zeneko munduaren sinbolo bete-betea begitandu zitzaion Syme-ri, gizonek beren bizar eta betaurreko eta sudurrak kendu eta beste norbait bilakatzen zireneko mundu harena.