A Escrava Isaura 7.170 · 7.170

The foot on the treadle turns the wheel 'automatico' — of its own accord, without the mind directing it. The whole body works while the soul withdraws; the labour has become so ingrained it needs no owner. It is a quietly terrible image of what enforced work makes of a person: a mechanism that runs itself.

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