Excerpt from Children of Men
On and on they roared.<there was no other sound to conflict with or to vary the monotony. At each machine sat a human being working with hand, foot, and eye, watching the flashing needle, guarding the margin Of the seams, jerking the cloth hither and thither quickly, accurately, watch ing the spool to see that the thread ran freely, Oil ing the gear with one hand while the other con tinned to push the garment rapidly under the needle, the whole body swaying, bending, twisting this way and that to keep time and pace with the work. Every muscle of the body toiled, but the mind was free - free as a bird to fly from that suf focating room out to green fields and woods and flower. L M Braun was thinking.
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