Re-reading them, he began to feel that he was not learning English, rather he was discovering some astonishing truths such as the fact that there are seven days in a week, that the ceiling is up and the floor is down; things which he already knew, but which suddenly struck him as being as stupefying as they were indisputably true.
Kada bi ih ponovno pročitao, osjećao se kao da nije učio engleski, nego je otkrivao neke zapanjujuće istine kao ta da ima 7 dana u tjednu, da je strop gore, a pod dolje tj. stvari koje je već znao, no koje su ga iznenedno pogodile kao zapanjujuće koliko su one zapravo neosporivo istinite.