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Book: Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems
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  1. Margaret Atwood _ Murder in the Dark: Short

    What's the difference between vision and a vision? The former relates to something it's assumed you've seen, the latter to something it's assumed you haven't. Language is not always dependable either.
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  2. Margaret Atwood _ Murder in the Dark: Short

    I've got nothing against telepathy, said Jane; but the telephone is so much more dependable.
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  3. Margaret Atwood _ Murder in the Dark: Short

    Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even if she liked it she had to pretend she didn't. Then she was supposed to like it. To make her do something she didn't like and then make her like it, that was greater power. The greatest power of all is when she doesn't really like it but she's supposed to like it, so she has to pretend.
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  4. Margaret Atwood _ Murder in the Dark: Short

    ...the hearts gone bubonic with jealousy and greed, glinting through the vests and sweaters of anyone at all.
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  5. Margaret Atwood _ Murder in the Dark: Short

    Prayer is wanting. Jesus, Jesus he says, but he's not praying to Jesus, he's praying to you, not to your body or your face but to the space you hold at the centre, which is the shape of the universe. Empty.
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