Or you could go out by yourself even to a half-block-long empty lot, into the bushes: like a creature of leaves you'd lurk, crouched, crawling, simplified, savage, alone; already there was wanting to be simpler, wanting, when they called you, never to go back.
Sau puteai ieşi singur până la un lot gol lung de jumătate de stradă, înspre tufişuri: ca o creatura din frunze ai trage cu urechea, ghemuit, târându-te, simplificat, sălbatic, singur; deja exista dorinţa de a fi mai simplu, dorindu-ţi, atunci când te strigau, să nu teîntorci niciodată.