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It was the life of an unpaid eighteenth-century servant, she thought, with basket-making thrown in.
Parecía la vida de un siervo no remunerado del siglo XVIII, con el añadido de la cestería.
She’d never had a basket-making lesson in her life, she might have said.
Habría podido decir que nunca en su vida había recibido una clase de cestería.
The city had been raised at the limits of an unvarying plain, among scrubland as useless for nourishment as it was for basket-making, on the edge of a river whose single redeeming feature was its enormous width.
La ciudad había sido erigida en el confín de una llanura sin matices, entre pajonales inservibles tanto para la alimentación como para la cestería, a orillas de un río cuya única gracia es su anchura descomunal.
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