After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.
Margaret AtwoodChildren don’t read ‘genres’; they read stories. Below a certain age, they don’t distinguish between ‘true’ and ‘not true,’ because they see no reason that a white rabbit shouldn’t possess a pocket watch, that whales shouldn’t talk, or that sentient beings shouldn’t live on other planets and travel in spaceships. Science-fiction tropes aren’t read as ‘science fiction’; they’re read as fiction. And fiction is read as reality. And sometimes reality lives under the bed and has very large teeth, and it’s no use pretending otherwise.
Margaret AtwoodDeath is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.
Margaret AtwoodEnvoi
we had no voice
we had no name
we had no choice
we had one face
one face the same
we took the blame
it was no fair
but now w're here
we're all here too
the same as you
and now we follow
you, we find you
now, we call
to you to you
too wit too woo
too wit too woo
too woo
(The Maids sprout feathers, and fly away as owls.)
I wish I was ignorant, so I didn't know how ignorant I am
Margaret AtwoodWhat is your favorite word?”
“And. It is so hopeful.
Как просто в ком угодно выдумать гуманность. Какой доступный соблазн. Большой ребенок, говорила она себе. Ее сердце таяло, она убирала у него со лба волосы, целовала в ухо – и не выгоды рада. Инстинкт утешить, облегчить. Тише, тише, говорила она, когда его будил ночной кошмар. Как же тебе достается. Наверняка она во все это верила – иначе как ей жить дальше?
Margaret AtwoodЧто ж поделать, простите меня. Я беженка из прошлого и, как все беженцы, вспоминаю обычаи и привычки бытия, которое бросила или вынуждена была бросить, и все они отсюда мнятся причудливыми, а я – ими одержимой. Как белогвардеец в Париже, что пьет чай, заблудившись в двадцатом веке, я влекусь назад, тщусь вновь обрести далекие тропы; сентиментальничаю без меры, теряюсь. Рыдаю. Это рыдания, не плач. Сижу на стуле и истекаю влагой, как губка.
Margaret AtwoodIn their dreams they touch, they intertwine, it's more like a collision, and that is the end of flying. They fall to earth, fouled parachutists, botched and cindery angels, love streaming out behind them like torn silk. Enemy groundfire comes up to meet them.
Margaret AtwoodToast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it to regurgitate in verbal form the sins and crimes of their past lives. Toast was a ritual item devoured by fetishists in the belief that it would enhance their kinetic and sexual powers. Toast cannot be explained by any rational means.
Toast is me.
I am toast.
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