A Escrava Isaura 7.34 · 7.34

The sentence has the shape of a proverb and the weight of a sentence passed: born captive to a bad master, 'turn here, turn there,' the end is the same. The little repeated gesture — dê por aqui, dê por acolá — is a life spent looking for an exit that is not there. It is also, exactly, Isaura's situation.

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