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June 06, 2024 14:30
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Historical Notes on The Handmaid’s Tale
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97.4%
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#FFB
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However, we must be grateful for any crumbs the Goddess of History has deigned to vouchsafe us.
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June 06, 2024 14:26
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Historical Notes on The Handmaid’s Tale
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95.0%
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The regime created an instant pool of such women by the simple tactic of declaring all second marriages and nonmarital liaisons adulterous, arresting the female partners, and, on the grounds that they were morally unfit, confiscating the children they already had, who were adopted by childless couples of the upper echelons who were eager for progeny by any means
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June 06, 2024 14:22
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Historical Notes on The Handmaid’s Tale
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93.7%
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#FFB
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The superscription “The Handmaid’s Tale” was appended to it by Professor Wade, partly in homage to the great Geoffrey Chaucer;
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June 06, 2024 14:17
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Chaper 46
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92.6%
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#FFB
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He calls me by my real name. Why should this mean anything?
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June 06, 2024 14:14
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Chaper 45
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90.9%
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#FFB
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’t want to be a doll hung up on the Wall, I don’t want to be a wingless angel. I want to keep on living, in any form. I resign my body freely, to the uses of others. They can do what they like with me. I am abject.
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June 06, 2024 14:10
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Chaper 44
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89.8%
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#FFB
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I never did know her real name. That is how you can get lost, in a sea of names. It wouldn’t be easy to find her, now
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June 06, 2024 01:20
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Chaper 43
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88.9%
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#FFB
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He wasn’t a rapist at all, he was a political. He was one of ours. I knocked him out. Put him out of his misery
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June 06, 2024 00:37
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Chaper 42
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87.6%
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#FFB
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I look at the grass instead. I describe the rope.
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June 05, 2024 23:17
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Chaper 41
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84.6%
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#FFB
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This is the story, then
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Or did she end up having a kid with Nick
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June 05, 2024 23:17
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Chaper 41
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84.4%
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#FFB
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I will hear yours too if I ever get the chance, if I meet you or if you escape, in the future or in heaven or in prison or underground, some other place
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Is she narrating this to Luke? Or someone else?
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June 05, 2024 23:17
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Chaper 41
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84.4%
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#FFB
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Because I’m telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.
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June 05, 2024 23:12
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Chaper 40
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83.7%
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#FFB
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It didn’t happen that way either. I’m not sure how it happened; not exactly. All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.
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June 05, 2024 16:17
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Chaper 37
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75.7%
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“I thought this sort of thing was strictly forbidden,” I say.
“Well, officially,” he says. “But everyone’s human, after all.”
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June 05, 2024 16:17
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Chaper 37
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75.7%
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#FFB
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Nature demands variety, for men. It stands to reason, it’s part of the procreational strategy. It’s Nature’s plan
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June 05, 2024 16:05
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Chaper 35
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71.7%
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#FFB
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We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely
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June 05, 2024 00:13
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Chaper 34
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70.2%
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“Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.” Here he looks us over. “All,” he repeats.
“But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
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June 05, 2024 00:13
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Chaper 34
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70.2%
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#FFB
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“Notwithstanding she shall be saved by childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.”
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June 05, 2024 00:10
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Chaper 34
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69.4%
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Start them soon is the policy, there’s not a moment to be lost
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June 05, 2024 00:10
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Chaper 34
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69.4%
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They’ll always have been in white, in groups of girls; they’ll always have been silent.
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June 04, 2024 22:21
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Chaper 30
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61.3%
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That’s one of the things they do. They force you to kill, within yourself.
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It’s interesting how she paints herself and Luke as these great people but really they both have some really negative character traits
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June 04, 2024 16:24
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Chaper 28
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56.9%
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Women can’t hold property anymore, she said. It’s a new law. Turned on the TV today?
No, I said.
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June 04, 2024 16:24
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Chaper 28
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56.9%
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#FFB
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I’ll go underground, she said. Some of the gays can take over our numbers and buy us things we need.
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Honestly … yeah that makes sense
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June 04, 2024 14:06
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Chaper 28
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55.2%
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#FFB
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Newspapers were censored and some were closed down, for security reasons they said. The roadblocks began to appear, and Identipasses. Everyone approved of that, since it was obvious you couldn’t be too careful.
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June 04, 2024 14:05
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Chaper 28
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55.0%
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#FFB
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It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time.
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June 04, 2024 13:54
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Chaper 27
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53.0%
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#FFB
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Each machine has an eye painted in gold on the side, flanked by two small golden wings.
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It’s giving indulgences
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June 03, 2024 22:49
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Chaper 23
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43.5%
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#FFB
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We are two-legged wombs, that’s all: sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices.
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June 03, 2024 22:47
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Chaper 23
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43.0%
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#FFB
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Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn’t really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn’t about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it’s about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.
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June 03, 2024 17:46
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Chaper 20
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37.0%
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#FFB
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You are a transitional generation, said Aunt Lydia. It is the hardest for you. We know the sacrifices you are being expected to make
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June 03, 2024 17:40
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Chaper 19
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35.0%
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#FFB
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. They could tell once, with machines, but that is now outlawed. What would be the point of knowing, anyway? You can’t have them taken out; whatever it is must be carried to term.
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June 03, 2024 17:10
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Chaper 18
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32.6%
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#FFB
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But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from.
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June 03, 2024 17:09
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Chaper 17
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31.9%
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#FFB
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pulls me against him, his mouth on mine, what else comes from such denial?
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Creep
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June 03, 2024 01:25
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Chaper 16
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30.6%
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#FFB
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One detaches oneself. One describes.
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Says a lot about her narration style
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June 03, 2024 00:59
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Chaper 14
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26.9%
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#FFB
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The little girl who is now dead sits in the back seat, with her two best dolls, her stuffed rabbit, mangy with age and love
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June 03, 2024 00:57
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Chaper 14
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26.9%
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#FFB
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My name isn’t Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it’s forbidden
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June 03, 2024 00:22
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Chaper 13
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24.3%
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#FFB
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. It occurs to me that he may not be alive.
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Huh
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June 03, 2024 00:22
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Chaper 13
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24.3%
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#FFB
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she’s only half awake because of the pill I gave her, so she wouldn’t cry or say anything that would give us away, she doesn’t know where she is
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June 03, 2024 00:12
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Chaper 13
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23.1%
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#FFB
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But whose fault was it? Aunt Helena says, holding up one plump finger.
Her fault, her fault, her fault, we chant in unison.
Who led them on? Aunt Helena beams, pleased with us.
She did. She did. She did.
Why did God allow such a terrible thing to happen?
Teach her a lesson. Teach her a lesson. Teach her a lesson.
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June 02, 2024 23:31
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Chaper 13
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22.8%
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#FFB
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We were on some kind of pill or drug I think, they put it in the food, to keep us calm. But maybe not.
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June 01, 2024 22:25
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Chaper 11
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19.8%
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#FFB
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Give me children, or else I die.
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June 01, 2024 22:18
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Chaper 10
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18.5%
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#FFB
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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.
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June 01, 2024 22:03
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Chaper 9
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17.0%
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#FFB
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Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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Google translate says do not let the bastards grind you down
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June 01, 2024 21:59
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Chaper 9
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16.5%
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#FFB
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In the afternoons, when Luke was still in flight from his wife, when I was still imaginary for him. Before we were married and I solidified
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June 01, 2024 21:52
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Chaper 8
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15.2%
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#FFB
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Forgive them, for they know not what they do.
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This feels biblical
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June 01, 2024 21:50
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Chaper 8
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14.6%
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#FFB
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They can’t help it, she said, God made them that way but He did not make you that way. He made you different. It’s up to you to set the boundaries. Later you will be thanked.
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June 01, 2024 21:48
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Chaper 8
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14.3%
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#FFB
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Two or three months, too young to tell whether or not it was an Unbaby.
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June 01, 2024 21:45
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Chaper 7
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13.3%
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#FFB
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She was wearing a dress I’d never seen, white and down to the ground.
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MC had a daughter? Do we know MCs name?
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June 01, 2024 21:45
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Chaper 7
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13.3%
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#FFB
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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
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June 01, 2024 21:19
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Chaper 6
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12.0%
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#FFB
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No woman in her right mind, these days, would seek to prevent a birth, should she be so lucky as to conceive.
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June 01, 2024 21:18
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Chaper 6
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11.9%
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#FFB
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Each has a placard hung around his neck to show why he has been executed: a drawing of a human fetus
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June 01, 2024 01:04
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Chaper 5
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10.6%
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#FFB
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Never forget it. To be seen—to be seen—is to be—her voice trembled—penetrated. What you must be, girls, is impenetrable. She called us girls.
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June 01, 2024 00:59
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Chaper 5
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9.3%
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#FFB
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We were a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice
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June 01, 2024 00:57
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Chaper 5
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9.1%
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#FFB
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There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.
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May 31, 2024 22:23
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Chaper 4
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6.7%
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#FFB
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Perhaps he is an Eye
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So I’m assuming that means there’s spies or something in this world?
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May 31, 2024 22:21
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Chaper 3
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5.9%
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#FFB
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They can hit us, there’s Scriptural precedent. But not with any implement. Only with their hands.
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May 31, 2024 22:19
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Chaper 3
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4.8%
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#FFB
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Sometimes I think these scarves aren’t sent to the Angels at all, but unraveled and turned back into balls of yarn, to be knitted again in their turn
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