And he longed also to be dying of hunger, to have an empty belly, a stomach twisted by cramps that would make his head turn with giddiness: perhaps that would have killed the eternal pain.
Et il souhaitait aussi de crever la faim, d'avoir le ventre vide, l'estomac tordu de crampes ébranlant le cerveau d'un vertige: peut-etre cela aurait-il tué l'éternelle douleur.