In the midst of these luminous sheets of water, I then glimpsed flashes of light, like those seen inside a blazing furnace from streams of molten lead or from masses of metal brought to a white heat--flashes so intense that certain areas of the light became shadows by comparison, in a fiery setting from which every shadow should seemingly have been banished.
Advertí entonces una serie de relámpagos en medio de las capas luminosas, como coladas de plomo fundido en un horno o masas metálicas llevadas a la incandescencia, de tal modo que, por contraste, algunas zonas luminosas parecían oscuras en ese medio ígneo que abolía la oscuridad.