but before the high and ponderous door, between the tall houses of a street as still and decorous as a well-kept alley in a cemetery, I had a vision of him on the stretcher, opening his mouth voraciously, as if to devour all the earth with all its mankind. He lived then before me;
baina atetzar luze gotorraren aurrean, hilerriko ibilbide ongi zaindutako bat bezain lasaia eta txukuna zen kale bateko etxe altuen artean, Kurtzen ikuskaria izan nuen, anda gainean, ahoa gosez zabaltzen, zera bezala, lurbira osoa-gizadia eta guzti-irentsi beharrean balego bezala.