So she's been to college, too. I should have known. That's what we get then," he said nastily, "for educating women. They get all kinds of ridiculous ideas."
"Oh, I don't know," Marian said with a touch of sharpness, "there's some men it doesn't do much good for either.
Where I am is not a prison but a privilege, as Aunt Lydia said, who is in love with either/or.
Margaret AtwoodHad she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar hadn't quite believed it either, but it was a reassuring story: that the dead were not entirely dead but were alive in a different way; a paler way admittedly, and somewhat darker. But still able to send messages, if only such messages could be recognized and deciphered. People need such stories, Pilar said once, because however dark, a darkness with voices in it is better than a silent void.
Margaret AtwoodTags: belief stories darkness folklore
- Axioma: uma doença não é produtiva. Em si mesma, não cria quaisquer produtos de consumo e, consequentemente, não gera dinheiro. Embora seja uma desculpa para muitas actividades, em termos económicos só permite que o dinheiro troque de mãos. Dos doentes para os saudáveis. Dos pacientes para os médicos, dos clientes para os curandeiros. Podemos chamar-lhe uma osmose financeira.
[...]
- Agora, supõe que és uma empresa chamada SábiaSaúde. Supõe que ganhas dinheiro com as drogas e as técnicas que curam pessoas doentes ou, melhor ainda, que tornam impossível que as pessoas cheguem a ficar doentes.
[...]
- Então, de que é que vais precisar mais tarde ou mais cedo?
- De mais curas?
- Depois disso?
O que queres dizer com "depois disso"?
- Depois de curares tudo o que existe para ser curado.
[...]
- Lembras-te da má situação financeira em que ficaram os dentistas depois de aquele novo colutório ter entrado no mercado? Aquele que substituía as bactérias nocivas da placa dentária por outras benéficas que preenchiam o mesmo nicho ecológico, nomeadamente a tua boca? Nunca mais ninguém precisou de chumbar um dente e muitos dentistas foram à falência.
- E então?
- Então, precisarias de mais doentes. Ou... o que ia dar no mesmo... de mais doenças. Novas e diferentes, certo?
- É plausível - admitiu Jimmy depois de uma breve pausa. De facto era. - Mas não estão constantemente a ser descobertas novas doenças?
- A ser descobertas, não - retorquiu Crex. - A ser criadas.
I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
Margaret AtwoodTags: resistance
Too friendly, too eager to be on message, man is obsolete, dooming ourselves to extinction, restore the balance of nature and babble babble, he overdid it so much that he sounded preposterous, and in an outfit like Bearlift, with its full quota of preposterous green-hued furfuckers, that took some effort.
Margaret AtwoodWatch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art, we’re in trouble. Symbolic thinking of any kind would signal downfall, in Crake’s view. Next they’d be inventing idols, and funerals, and grave goods, and the afterlife, and sin, and Linear B, and kings, and then slavery and war. Snowman longs to question them—who first had the idea of making a reasonable facsimile of him, of Snowman, out of a jar lid and a mop? But that will have to wait.
Margaret AtwoodTags: idolatry
Sanity is a valuable possesion; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.
Margaret AtwoodTags: sanity
It had helped to keep her sane, that writing. Then, when time had begun again and real people had entered it, she'd abandoned it here. Now it's a whisper from the past.
Is that what writing amounts to? The voice your ghost would have, if it had a voice?
Tags: writing
If the stock market exists, so must previous lives.
Margaret AtwoodTags: death past-lives stock-market
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