A Escrava Isaura 4.24 · 4.24

Three words and a trail of dots. Isaura begins to protest — to what end? why banish and bury her? — and cannot finish, or is not allowed to. The broken line is her whole predicament in miniature: a question she has every right to ask and no power to complete.

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