un-enrolled

Updated: July 23, 2026

Above the pandemonium my companions were howling hoarsely and imploringly for the interpreter, while clutching their trembling victim by the slack of his labor-stained shirt lest he escape un-enrolled. The interpreter, in accordance with a well-known law of physics and the limitations of human nature, could not be in sixteen places at once.

Harry Alverson Franck - Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers