Called " Dave's Rag, " they made copies on a mimeograph machine and distributed it to their friends.

他们油上刷《戴夫的破布》，然把它分发他们的朋友。

A few minutes later, in the bowels of the building, she handed him a packet of dog-eared pages copied by means of a hand-cranked mimeograph.

几分钟， 筑物的深处，她递他一叠用曲柄油的、边角已经翻卷的纸页。

And so, thousands and thousands of telephone calls crisscross the city each morning in a groping for human contact away from the roar of the mimeograph machines and the hollow thunder of ghost-written inanities.

因此，每天早上，成千上万的电话城市中纵横交错， 以寻找人与人之间的联系， 远离油的轰鸣声和代笔的空洞雷声。