Since my father used always to speak of the 'Méséglise way' as comprising the finest view of a plain that he knew anywhere, and of the 'Guermantes way' as typical of river scenery, I had invested each of them, by conceiving them in this way as two distinct entities, with that cohesion, that unity which belongs only to the figments of the mind;
Gure aitak beti aipatzen zuenez Méséglise aldea berak inoiz ezagututako lautada-ikuspegirik ederrentzat, eta Guermantes aldea, berriz, uhaitz-paisaia tipikotzat, nik biei ematen nien, entitate banatzat harturik, zeini berea, kohesio hori, batasun hori, gure gogamenaren sorkari besterik izan ohi ez dena;