… 30 seconds before the deadline. AND i used proper MLA citations. i consider this a victory.
oh, and i’m done with college.
huh.
first up: shiny toy guns - you are the one.
oh, high school.
We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it. There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, interfered with, as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. None of them were the men we knew. The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives.
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.
”—
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
Published in 1985 and still culturally relevant.
We need each others’
breathing, warmth, surviving
is the only war
we can afford, stay
walking with me, there is almost
time / if we can only
make it as far as
the (possibly) last summer ”
— Margaret Atwood, from “They are hostile nations” (via the-final-sentence)
(via the-final-sentence)
