It was kept submerged at all times by the easy play of conversation, just as Scheherazade held off the death sentence by telling stories. Sometimes I led the conversation to the edge of sadness; sometimes I let flippancy break loose; sometimes I tempted them out into a dialectical game.
Beti ezkutuan geratzen zer solasaren jolas arinaz, Scherezadek ipuinak kontatuz heriotz-zigorra saihesten zuen antzera. Batzuetan tristuraren mugetara eramaten nuen elkarrizketa; beste batzuetan bihurrikeriari uzten nion nagusitzen; inoiz tentatu egiten nituen jolas dialektiko batean aritzera.