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  1. Margaret Atwood _ Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

    , yeah, it was, like, seminal, but tame by today's standards. Violet, for instance, did not get her intestines ripped out. There wasn't any torture, nobody's liver got fried in a pan, there wasn't any gang rape. So what's the fun of that?
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  2. Margaret Atwood _ Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

    Jack quit his advertising job and devoted himself to the life of the pen. Or rather, to the life of the Remington, soon to be replaced with an IBM Selectric, with the bouncing ball that let you change the typeface. Now that was cool!
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  3. Margaret Atwood _ Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

    By contrast, no one in Alphinland ever demanded a blowjob. But then, no one in Alphinland had a toilet either. Toilets weren't necessary. Why waste time on that kind of routine bodily function when there were giant scorpions invading the castle?
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  4. Margaret Atwood _ Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

    Nor does she attend conventions any more: she's seen enough kids dressed up like vampires and bunnies and , and especially like the nastier villains of Alphinland. She really can't bear one more inept impersonation of Milzreth of the Red Hand – yet another apple-cheeked innocent in quest of his inner wickedness.
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  5. Margaret Atwood _ Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

    Does she ever see him watching her through the picture window? Most likely. Does she think he's a lecherous old man? Very probably. But he isn't exactly that. How to convey the mix of longing, wistfulness, and muted regret that he feels? His regret is that he isn't a lecherous old man, but he wishes he were. He wishes he still could be.
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  6. Margaret Atwood _ Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

    What were prizes but one more level of control imposed on Art by the establishment?
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  7. Margaret Atwood _ Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

    However she tried to hide it, she resented me, of course. There's only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you.
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  8. Margaret Atwood _ Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

    he hasn't yet taken to crapping on the carpet and destroying the furniture and whining for meals, but close.
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  9. Margaret Atwood _ Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

    I should have married Constance," he says. That's his ace: plonk! Right down on the table. Those five words are usually very effective: he might score a barrage of hostility, and maybe even some tears.
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  10. Margaret Atwood _ Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

    Florida's not the hick town you keep saying it is," says Reynolds. "Times have changed; they've got good universities now and a great book festival! Thousands of people come to it!
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  11. Margaret Atwood _ Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

    It's wonderful to hear his voice, even if she can't depend on having any sort of a conversation with him. His interventions tend to be one-sided: if she answers him, he doesn't often answer back. But it was always more or less like that between them.
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  12. Margaret Atwood _ Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

    Calling a piece of short fiction a "tale" removes it at least slightly from the realm of mundane works and days, as it evokes the world of the folk tale, the wonder tale, and the long-ago teller of tales.
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