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"How could anyone say that the workers had had their fair share of the extraordinary increase in wealth and living standards that had taken place over the previous hundred years? People had simply told them that they were free and then washed their hands of them. Free? Yes, free to die of starvation."

"They were already black with coal, covered with a layer of fine dust that dissolved in their sweat and trickled down them an collected in pools...The dripping water landed on (Maheu's) forehead and with such stubborn regularity that he felt as though he were boring a hole through the bone in his skull."

I feel like this would play well with the people writing the brochures for Carnival Cruise Lines?