A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 7.173 · 7.173

A fathomless depth of sorrow

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que encobrião um pégo insondavel de tristura e desconforto.

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that concealed a fathomless deep of sorrow and distress.

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The image reaches its floor — or rather its unreachable floor. 'Um pégo insondavel' — a fathomless pool, an abyss without a soundable bottom — of 'tristura e desconforto,' sorrow and distress. The whole delicate portrait has been leading here: beneath the lovely, drooping surface lies a grief with no measure and no bottom.

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