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  1. Margaret Atwood _ Wilderness Tips

    It's the forties look," she says to George, hand on her hip, doing a pirouette. "Rosie the Riveter. From the war. Remember her?"George, whose name is not really George, does not remember. He spent the forties rooting through garbage bag heaps and begging, and doing other things unsuitable for a child. He has a dim memory of some film star posed on a calendar tattering on a latrine wall. Maybe this is the one Prue means. He remembers for an instant his intense resentment of the bright, ignorant smile, the well-fed body. A couple of buddies had helped him take her apart with the rusty blade from a kitchen knife they'd found somewhere in the rubble. He does not consider telling any of this to Prue.
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  2. Margaret Atwood _ Wilderness Tips

    I will never be that old, thinks Joanne. I will die before I'm thirty. She knows this absolutely. It's a tragic but satisfactory thought. If necessary, if some wasting disease refuses to carry her off, she'll do it herself, with pills. She is not at all unhappy but she intends to be, later. It seems required.
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  3. Margaret Atwood _ Wilderness Tips

    I no longer think that anything can happen. I no longer want to think that way. Happen is what you wait for, not what you do; and anything is a large category.
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  4. Margaret Atwood _ Wilderness Tips

    She rents herself a large, empty apartment on the top floor of a house. She has no long-term plans. At night she listens to the radio and cooks subsistence meals, and cries onto her plate.
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  5. Margaret Atwood _ Wilderness Tips

    Sex and violence, he thinks now. A lot of the songs were about that. We didn't even notice. We thought it was art.
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  6. Margaret Atwood _ Wilderness Tips

    Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.
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  7. Margaret Atwood _ Wilderness Tips

    Time is going faster and faster; the days of the week whisk by like panties.
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  8. Margaret Atwood _ Wilderness Tips

    By the time she was sixteen, Jane had heard enough about this to last her several lifetimes. In her mother's account of the way things were, you were young briefly and then you fell. You plummeted downwards like an overripe apple and hit the ground with a squash; you fell, and everything about you fell too. You got fallen arches and a fallen womb, and your hair and teeth fell out. That's what having a baby did to you. It subjected you to the force of gravity.
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  9. Margaret Atwood _ Wilderness Tips

    It's simple,' Kat told them. 'You bombard them with images of what they ought to be, and you make them feel grotty for being the way they are. You're working with the gap between reality and perception. That's why you have to hit them with something new, something they've never seen before, something they aren't. Nothing sells like anxiety.
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  10. Margaret Atwood _ Wilderness Tips

    She had loved him, uselessly."
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  11. Margaret Atwood _ Wilderness Tips

    Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means.
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  12. Margaret Atwood _ Wilderness Tips

    The lock splits. The iron gate swings open. She emerges, raises her arms towards the suddenly chilled moon. The world changes.
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