Only in the blackness before it entirely destroyed his brain he seemed to hear a distant voice saying a commonplace text that he had heard somewhere, "Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of?"
Burmuina erabat suntsituko zion iluntasun ikaragarri hori nagusitu aurretik, ordea, iruditu zitzaion ahots urrun bat entzuten zuela lehenago ere nonbait aditua zuen testu guztiz ezagun bat esaten: "Edan dezakezue nik edaten dudan kaliza honetatik?"