Status Updates From Germinal

"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?