There were a few other moves of his father's he could do without as well - the sucker punches, the ruffling of the hair, the way of pronouncing the word son, in a slightly deeper voice. This hearty way of talking was getting worse, as if his father were auditioning for the role of Dad, but without much hope.
Margaret AtwoodTag: father
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times
Creation's mighty seed -
For Man has broke the Fellowship
With murder, lust, and greed.
Tag: dystopia fellowship margaret-atwood toby ren maddaddam-trilogy the-year-of-the-flood when-adam-first
I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling me there was a dead man in the sky watching everything I did and I retaliated by explaining where babies came from. Some of their mothers phoned mine to complain, though I think I was more upset than they were: they didn't believe me but I believed them.
Margaret AtwoodBy telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on.
Margaret AtwoodDespués de tanto tiempo juntos, ambos tenemos la cabeza atiborrada de esas advertencias menores, esas pistas útiles sobre la otra persona: lo que le gusta y lo que le disgusta, sus preferencias y sus tabúes. No te pongas detrás de mí cuando estoy leyendo. No uses mis cuchillos de cocina. No desordenes. Cada cual cree que el otro debería respetar esa serie frecuentemente repetida de instrucciones de uso, pero el caso es que se anulan las unas a las otras: si Tig debe respetar mi necesidad de remolonear sin pensar en nada, libre de malas noticias, antes de la primera taza de café ¿no debería yo respetar su necesidad de escupir catástrofes para librarse cuanto antes de ellas?
-Oh, lo siento- dice, y me dirige una mirada de reproche.
¿Por qué tengo que decepcionarlo de ese modo? ¿No sé acaso que si no puede contarme las malas noticias de inmediato, alguna glándula biliar o alguna úlcera de las malas noticias estallará en su interior y le producirá una peritonitis del alma? Entonces quien lo sentirá seré yo.
Tiene razón, debería sentirlo. No me queda nadie más cuyo pensamiento pueda leer.
Tag: matrimonio relaciones parejas
Why are you so interested in amoebas?"
"Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a
person is getting too complicated.
Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?
Margaret AtwoodBesides, who would think of marrying a mothball? A question my mother put to me often, later, in other forms.
Margaret AtwoodHumanity is so adaptable [...] Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
Margaret AtwoodTag: humanity
I want to see what can be seen, of him, take him in, memorize him, save him up so I can live on the image, later: the lines of his body, the texture of his flesh, the glisten of sweat on his pelt, his long sardonic unrevealing face. I ought to have done that with Luke, paid more attention, to the details, the moles and scares, the singular creases; I didn't and he's fading. Day by day, night by night he recedes, and I become more faithless.
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