تطور من الداخل، وعوض نفسه عن بصره الذي كلّ وأصابته الشيخوخة. هرس سكك البلدة على مدار عمره الطويل، وخرائط خرائط مرصوصة في دماغه، لكل شارع أو حارة أو زقاق، المداخل والمخارج والانحناءات.
He had evolved from within, compensating for the sight that old age had worn out. He had trodden the village lanes all his long life, and maps upon maps were stacked in his head: every street, alley and passage, the entrances, exits and bends.
From the novel Unforgettable Days · Chapter 16
Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.