I remember the whirr and whine of her black Singer, the gold traceries on the cast iron rod by the wheel that lifted and lowered the needle. Threading, eyepieces, winding the turquoise string through hooks, around miniscule wheels, up and down, her Ariadne hands clever in labyrinths,..

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I remember the whirr and whine of her black Singer, the gold traceries on the cast iron rod by the wheel that lifted and lowered the needle. Threading, eyepieces, winding the turquoise string through hooks, around miniscule wheels, up and down, her Ariadne hands clever in labyrinths,.." in the context of "Julia Alvarez, "New Clothes" Homecoming (1984) p. 39." to mean that wisdom is timeless.