Julia Alvarez

But, you know, you think about the knitting mill.

Nice.

And these were mills all over New England.

Yeah.

especially in that Lawrence, which I know that city well, full of Dominicans, Lawrence, Mass, and New Bedford, where they had these textile mills.

Many children were employed because they could crawl into the innards

Of the big looms and so forth.

And, you know, there was child labor.

And so there's, they've been repurposed, many of them, into expensive condos, classes and so forth.

So you're having, you know, you have that background.

To even mention it sort of pushes too hard on every detail here.

But then you get to Mrs. Lawrence, and I mean, she's not into her teaching, but carved her nails?

I mean, that's kind of like...

Unusual and kind of a violent verb for what she's doing.

And then even the timony outside that broke up the sky.

Yep, and there's that mill, you know, pulled out with the title.

And then, you know, we get to the kids crushing her up like cattle.

And we're into carving and cattle, and sure enough, there comes the sausages.

Right, right, right.

And, you know, I think if you didn't have that line, her arms sang down like sausages, you need that line.