that room in which my mind, forcing itself for hours on end to leave its moorings, to elongate itself upwards so as to take on the exact shape of the room, and to reach to the summit of that monstrous funnel, had passed so many anxious nights while my body lay stretched out in bed, my eyes staring upwards, my ears straining, my nostrils sniffing uneasily, and my heart beating;
-non nire gogamenak, hedatzen eta gorantz luzatzen hainbeste orduz saiatuaren saiatuz, gau latz askoak nozituak baitzituen, gelaren tankerari zehazki igarri eta haren inbutu-era erraldoia goraino nolakoa ote zen asmatu nahirik, ohean etzanda, begiak zabal, belarria erne, sudurra sare, bihotza taupa: