It was as if something had gone out of New York-the realness or the importance of it-and the city was putting on a show just for him, a colossal show with its buses, taxis, and hurrying people on the sidewalks, its television shows in all the Third Avenue bars, its movie marquees lighted up in broad daylight, and its sound effects of thousands of honking horns and human voices, talking for no purpose whatsoever.
Hala zirudien, zerbait joan egin zela New Yorketik-bere errealtasuna edo garrantzia-eta hiria ikuskizun bat eskaintzen ari zela berarentzat, ikuskizun erraldoi baten osagai zirela autobusak, taxiak, eta espaloietako jende presatia, Hirugarren Hiribideko taberna guztietako telebista saioak, egun argiz ere argituta zirauten zinema markesinak, eta milaka bozina-hotsen eta zentzugabe mintzo ziren ahotsen soinu efektuak.