Quotes About Lathe

Anonymous, where among the hard-bitten, laid-off-lathe-operator

Our world was like that, full of words that killed: croup, tetanus, typhus, gas, war, lathe, rubble, work, bombardment, bomb, tuberculosis, infection. With these words and those years I bring back the many fears that accompanied me all my life.

Behind her smile, her thoughts whirred like a pole lathe, back and forth, shaving the layers.