By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I 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.
Margaret AtwoodTag: power belief faith believe
Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing.
Margaret AtwoodI am alive, I live, I breathe, I
put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight. Where I am is not a prison but a privilege...
Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in time and exist in two places at once.
Margaret AtwoodTag: time time-travel
Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got.
Margaret AtwoodTag: chapter-24
In reduced circumstances the desire to live attaches itself to strange objects. I would like a pet: a bird, say, or a cat. A familiar. Anything at all familiar.
Margaret AtwoodTag: chapter-19
I reproached them all for not having told me of my son's departure, and for not stopping him, until that interfering old biddy Eurycleia confessed that she alone had aided and abetted him.
Margaret AtwoodTag: humor
Now she imagines him dreaming. She imagines him dreaming of her, as she is dreaming of him. Through a sky the color of wet slate they fly towards each other on dark invisible wings.
Margaret AtwoodHis drawings were not originals then, only copies. He must have been doing them as a sort of retirement hobby, he was an incurable amateur and enthusiast; if he'd become hooked (on these rock paintings) he would have combed the area for them, collecting them with his camera, pestering experts by letter whenever he found one; an old man's delusion of usefulness.
Margaret Atwood...that's what Hiltler exemplified: not the triumph of evil but the failure of reason.
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