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Fuzzy Boots's avatar

this reminds me of the "mowing scene" in Anna Karenina https://www.marxists.org/archive/tolstoy/1877/anna-karenina/part-3-chapter-4.html and we know there was always a hidden social commentary implied in Tolstoy's words

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Parrish Baker's avatar

Hmm, very good!

"But so soon as he recollected what he was doing, and began trying to do better, he was at once conscious of all the difficulty of his task, and the row was badly mown."

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