26 Men And A Girl

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bakers, who see themselves as superior to the twenty-six, and by the police, who will not even allow them into the town gardens. Their intensive and monotonous labor has changed them into shells of people, stealing away their health, vitality, and humanity as it has turned them into veritable machines,- “we moved our hands and fingers mechanically during endlessly long hours, till we were so accustomed to our monotonous work that we ceased to pay any attention to it.” The men have worked along side one another so long that they have almost become one consciousness. They no longer speak, as they have said everything there is to say to one another. When they sing, the action begins spontaneously, as if all the men are in tune with each other.
Their existence is terribly bleak, and so they come, almost naturally, to the worship of the sixteen-year old Tanya. The narrator describes, “we were still men, and, like all men, could not live without worshipping something or other. Better ...

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