Amid the hum of the wheels
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No meio do sussurro das rodas, que giravão, das monotonas cantarólas das fiandeiras,
Amid the hum of the turning wheels and the monotonous crooning of the spinners,
A single long sentence builds the soundscape of the hall before letting us overhear it — wheels, work-songs, the loom, the children. Guimarães writes the noise so that the whispered conversation we are about to catch feels genuinely private, half-hidden under the din of labour.
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