In the meantime I'll give you something to chew over. It's an excerpt from the book I'm reading, which I think everyone should go and read because it's awesome. The book is The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. 3nodding Here's, so far, my favorite part of the book.
Quote:
-----I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance.
-----If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off.
-----It isn't a story I'm telling.
-----It's also a story I'm telling, in my head, as I go along.
-----Tell, rather than write, because I have nothing to write with and writing is in any case forbidden. But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else.
-----Even when there is no one.
-----A story is like a letter. Dear You, I'll say. Just you, without a name. Attaching a name attaches you to the world of fact, which is riskier, more hazardous; who knows what the chances are out there, of survival, yours? I will say you, you, like an old love song. You can mean more than one.
-----You can mean thousands.
-----I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you.
-----I'll pretend you can hear me.
-----But it's no good, because I know you can't.
-----If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off.
-----It isn't a story I'm telling.
-----It's also a story I'm telling, in my head, as I go along.
-----Tell, rather than write, because I have nothing to write with and writing is in any case forbidden. But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else.
-----Even when there is no one.
-----A story is like a letter. Dear You, I'll say. Just you, without a name. Attaching a name attaches you to the world of fact, which is riskier, more hazardous; who knows what the chances are out there, of survival, yours? I will say you, you, like an old love song. You can mean more than one.
-----You can mean thousands.
-----I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you.
-----I'll pretend you can hear me.
-----But it's no good, because I know you can't.
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