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Eric Maas
is on page 295 of 296
…our history, which is but a long account of c calamities. (p. 295)
— Oct 04, 2026 01:30PM
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Eric Maas
is on page 294 of 296
…finally the killing, accomplished in this case not by putting the cocoons out of the sun or in a hot oven, as was often the practice in the past, but by suspending them over a boiling cauldron. The cocoons, spread out on shallow baskets, have to be kept in the rising staan for upwards of three hours, and when the batch is done, it is the next one’s turn, and so on until the killing business is completed.
— Oct 04, 2026 01:17PM
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Eric Maas
is on page 283 of 296
…a great number of people spent their lives with their wretched bodies strapped to looms made of wooden frames and rails, hung with weights, and reminiscent of instruments of torture or cages. It was a peculiar symbiosis which […] makes more apparent than any later form of factory work that we are able to maintain ourselves on this earth only by being harnessed to the machines we invented (p. 283)
— Oct 04, 2026 12:30PM
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