So it happens to us in the yawning of sleep, before it has fully possessed us, to perceive, as in a dream, what is done about us, and to follow the last things that are said with a perplexed and uncertain hearing which seems but to touch upon the borders of the soul; and to make answers to the last words that have been spoken to us, which have more in them of chance than sense.
Gertatzen zaigu ere, loaren motelduran, osoki har gaitzan baino lehen, gure inguruan egiten denaren ametsetan bezala sentitzea, eta ahotsei jarraikitzea gogoaren bazterretara baizik jotzen ez duela dirudien entzumen uher eta nahasi batez; eta esan zaizkigun azken hitzen ondotik zentzu baino zori gehiago duten ihardespenak egiten ditugu.