and in the thick warm air of a contented boredom and very welcome painlessness the nodding mandarin of a half-and-half god and the nodding middle-aged gentleman who sings his muffled psalm look as like each other as two peas. There is much to be said for contentment and painlessness, for these bearable and submissive days, on which neither pain nor pleasure is audible, but pass by whispering and on tip-toe. But the worst of it is that it is just this contentment that I cannot endure.
Puska batean pozik eta oinazerik gabe egon banaiz eta egun on deituriko horietako jasangarritasun epel eta beti berdina arnastu badut, orduan nire haur ariman ikaragarrizko oinazea eta mixeria somatzen dut eta esker onezko lira herdoildua aurpegi asetura botatzen diot zorionaren jainko iguingarriari eta nahiago dut nire baitan mila deabruren samina sutan edukitzea gelako tenperatura erosoa izan baino.