Billy Budd, Part 35 요약

줄거리

1. The narrator describes the Temple’s secluded comforts and explains how modern lawyers inherit the Templars’ name and grounds.
2. R. F. C. hosts a generous bachelor dinner marked by conversation, shared drinking, and quiet manners.
3. Seeking cheaper paper for seed envelopes, the narrator travels through bitter cold to the Devil’s Dungeon mill.
4. The owner treats his frozen cheeks, completes their business, and appoints Cupid to guide him through the factory.
5. Cupid shows the silent workers, dangerous rag processing, and machinery that converts pulp into paper in exactly nine minutes.
6. The owner explains his unmarried workforce and demanding schedule; the narrator departs, painfully recalling the London bachelors.

눈여겨볼 점

Cupid explains the machine’s compulsory motion. The narrator connects that mechanical necessity with the women’s apparent inability to resist their labor.

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