he'd say, in the English style, without a comma, laughing. And while he laughed his jest became the war itself, together with all the unavoidable suffering it caused, both resistance and collaboration, hunger and cold, martyrdom and infamy.
Holaxe, ingelesen modura, komarik gabe, barre batean, eta barrean ziraueno gerra bera ere txantxa bilakatzen zen, baita gerraren ondoriozko sufrimendu baitezpadako guztia ere, nola Erresistentzia hala Kolaborazionismoa, nola gosea hala hotza, nola martirioa hala laidoa.