Some talked, some hummed
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Umas conversavão, outras cantarolavão para encurtarem as longas horas de seo fastidioso trabalho.
Some talked, others hummed to shorten the long hours of their wearisome work.
The humming is the oldest thing in the room — work-song as the only defence against the clock. Guimarães notes it in passing, but it is the seed of the chapter: soon one of these voices will carry the whole novel's grief.
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