And my grandmother had bought them in preference to other books, just as she would have preferred to take a house that had a gothic dovecot, or some other such piece of antiquity as would have a pleasant effect on the mind, filling it with a nostalgic longing for impossible journeys through the realms of time.
Eta amonak haiexek hautatu beste guztien artean, edozein eraikin kaxkar alokatuko zukeen bezalaxe, beste ezein baino gogotsuago, baldin usategi gotikoren batez, edo beste zeinahi gauza zaharrez, hornitua balego, halakoek izpirituari eragin zoriontsu bat txertatzen diotelakoan, nonbait, denboran barrenako bidaia ezinezkoen nostalgia ziztatuz.