It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train-a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.
Lurpeko edozein tren baino askoz handiagoa zen, ikaragarria eta deskribatu ezina: protoplasma-burbuilen pilaketa amorfo bat, luminiszentzia ahulekoa, etengabe aldi baterako milaka begi sortu eta pustula berdexketan desegiten, guregana zekarren tunelaren hutsune osoa betetzen, pinguino ikaratuak zanpatzen, bera eta beraren ahaideak hain makurki garbitua zuten zoru dirdiratsuaren gainean irristatzen...