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night. He studied the passage of the
steam-boat; and when we in the morning ascended
the sluice terraces from Lake Venern, higher
and higher from lake to lake, away over the
high-plain – higher, continually higher – he was
in such activity that it appeared as if it could not
be greater – and then we reached Motala.
The Swedish author Tjörnerös relates of
himself, that when a child he once asked what
it was that ticked in the clock, and they
answered him that it was one named "Bloodless."
What brought the child’s pulse to beat with
feverish throbs and the hair on his head to
rise, also exercised its power in Motala, over the
old man from Trollhätta.
We now went through the great manufactory
in Motala. What ticks in the dock, beats here
with strong strokes of the hammer. It is
Bloodless, who drank life from human thought
and thereby got limbs of metals, stone and
wood; it is Bloodless, who by human thought
gained strength, which man himself does not
physically possess. Bloodless reigns in Motala,
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