'Come along, Steve!' Levin shouted, feeling his heart beat more rapidly, and suddenly, as if some bar had been withdrawn from his strained sense of hearing, he lost the faculty of measuring distance, and was struck by sounds which reached him clearly but without any order.
— Va’, va’, Stiva! — gridò Levin, sentendo che il cuore gli cominciava a battere forte e che a un tratto, come se un chiavistello avesse aperto il suo udito teso, tutti i suoni, perduta la misura della distanza, cominciavano a colpirlo disordinatamente, ma con chiarezza.