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  1. Margaret Atwood _ Der blinde Mörder

    Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories.
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  2. Margaret Atwood _ Der blinde Mörder

    A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?
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  3. Margaret Atwood _ Der blinde Mörder

    Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.
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  4. Margaret Atwood _ Der blinde Mörder

    Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.
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  5. Margaret Atwood _ Der blinde Mörder

    Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
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