Networking Annotation #3: I really like this quote. When I first read it, I thought of Martin Eden. It was just a quote that fits with the whole story of his life until the end. There was a quote that said, "He had exiled himself. He had traveled in the vast realm of intellect until he could no longer return home.” I found this quote similar to this quote in the song of not being able to go back. It is not saying that once you break your usual cycle in life even when you want to go back, it is impossible. This also goes with all the other works that we have read too because they all have to keep moving forward. Like another example being Sleep Dealer because of the fact that in the end, Rudy Ramirez isn't able to go back home because of the fact that he disobeyed his orders. He didn't do his job, so I thought he also fit this line. Also showing what happens when you break the norm.

Networking Annotation #6: I found this quote interesting, but I also found it really relating to our topic of labor because of the fact that people are never satisfied especially working classes because we all dream of life where work would not be needed. However, the darkness on the end of town made me think of On The Waterfront, where the love interest, Terry wants to know about her brother's death which opened a lot of cans in the movie. In that movie, that is the darkness of the edge of town that got the viewers to get in deeper in the hardship of behind the scenes of the working class. I believe this line is like talking about the dirt of working.

Networking Annotation #5: There was a quote from Martin Eden where made me think of this quote that just had a similar feel of hope. It was when he was starting to lose motivation, after a drink, he went, "His dreams came back to him. Fancy came out of the darkened room and lured him on, a thing of flaming brightness. his mirror of vision was silver-clear, a flashing, dazzling palimpsest of imagery." The hope in this quote being the dream of our main character, it shows hope to keep going which I believe relates to the end of this line of the song where it was said "It will raise me above these" and in Martin Eden's case, it is the same thing, his fate and hope in his hard work is what made him believe it will raise him above what he is now.

Networking Annotation #4: This quote just reminds me of working in general. We work and we work and everyday we would wish it would end, but in the end we still work. It made me think of this quote from Severance where Candance went "“I was like everyone else. We all hoped the storm would knock things over, fuck things up enough but not too much. We hoped the damage was bad enough to cancel work the next morning but not so bad that we couldn’t go to brunch instead." I found it had the same tension and desire to run, but in the end many don't do that and just work. It really tell a lot about labor. We keep quiet exploding on the inside, but never on the outside.

Networking Annotation #2: This quote is what I believe is a common theme in most of the works that we have read especially Martin Eden and Blood on the Forge, in which our main characters tries their best to escape their present life for something more and better that would benefit them and let them live easily. For this, I thought about Martin's "Who are you" quote where he said, "And yet you dare to open the books, to listen to beautiful music, to learn to love beautiful paintings, to speak good English, to think thoughts that none of your own kind thinks, to tear yourself away from the oxen and the Lizzie Connollys and to love a pale spirit of a woman who is a million miles beyond you and who lives in the stars! Who are you? and what are you? damn you! And are you going to make good?" I thought him talking to himself like that was a great example of working hard "to get my hands clean" which I believe can also mean working hard to just be better.

Networking Annotation #1: I found this quote was similar to a quote in Serverance that goes "My memories replay, unprompted, on repeat. And our days, like theirs, continue in an infinite loop.” in this quote, the main character questioned how is having a fever is different from how people are without the fever because even now people are doing the same thing. I thought that quote of infinite loop is similar to this quote about working because of the cycle. Every day is the same and nothing is changing really in the endless loop of labor. We continue doing the same thing over and over. I found the talk from the book and the repetition of the word "working" helped us understand the endless loop.

This line made me think of Martin Eden and how in the end of the novel he lost his place in his old life by dipping his toes in a richer life. He not being able to go back to how life was is what I thought of when I listened to this line and compared.

For some reason, this line makes me think of how there are many people that are working to support their parents or could be trying to pay off debt which would be sins. Of course not everyone, but this line could be referring to working to give back.

This part of the song makes me think of the working class as a whole and also of Severance in a way of how even in a time of difficulty, the crave to work is strong. Even when you hate the work you do, you can't help, but want to keep living and to live a good life. You work for that life no matter what. The line "Sometimes I feel so weak I just want to explode" is reflecting the many thoughts of working class.