If the madness reaches a high degree, there is complete absence of memory, so that the madman is quite incapable of any reference to what is absent or past, and is only determined by the caprice of the moment in connection with the fictions which, in his mind, fill the past.
Eromenak maila garai bat lortzen badu, erabateko oroimen-gabezia sortzen da, horregatik orduan eroak ez du inolako gaitasunik izaten absente edo iraganekoa den ezerekiko interesa erakusteko, baizik aldiuneko aldartearen bitartez bakarrik determinatzen da, buruan iragana betetzen dioten fikzioei loturik: