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"If someone had told me a few weeks ago that nearly every major news website
and social media account in the English-speaking world would post a video of
Margaret Atwood – the 82-year-old matron saint of Canadian letters, the subject
of countless doctoral dissertations and at least ten forests worth of
undergraduate student essays – firing a flamethrower at a specially made,
unburnable copy of
The Handmaid’s Tale, I probably would have been a bit
sceptical.
Then again, in her public appearances, Atwood has always managed to combine an
elegant self-possession with an unflinching, even rugged pertinacity. In every
interview I have read or seen, she seems simultaneously demure and terrifying,
like a diminutive grandmother – who also just happens to be holding a
flamethrower."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
