ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): Margaret Atwood

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Showing posts with label Margaret Atwood. Show all posts

Monday, July 7, 2025

Watching

THE HANDMAID'S TALE
Season 6

Sunday, July 6, 2025

Watching

THE HANDMAID'S TALE
Season 6

Saturday, May 3, 2025

MARGARET ATWOOD
The Blind Assassin

Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so the guy doesn't even know he's been hurt until much later. Then he finds out. Then his dick falls off.

Monday, April 7, 2025

Watching

THE HANDMAID’S TALE
Season Five (2022)

Creators
Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller

Directors
Elizabeth Moss, Dana Gonzales, Eva Vives, Natalia Leite, Bradley Whitford

Sunday, April 6, 2025

Watching

THE HANDMAID’S TALE
Season Five (2022)

Creators
Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller

Directors
Elizabeth Moss, Dana Gonzales, Eva Vives, Natalia Leite, Bradley Whitford

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Watching

THE HANDMAID’S TALE
Season Five (2022)

Creators
Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller

Directors
Elizabeth Moss, Dana Gonzales, Eva Vives, Natalia Leite, Bradley Whitford

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Watching

THE HANDMAID’S TALE
Season Four (2021)

Creators
Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Watching

THE HANDMAID’S TALE
Season Four (2021)

Creators
Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Watching

THE HANDMAID’S TALE
Season Four (2021)

Creators
Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller

Sunday, March 30, 2025

Watching

THE HANDMAID’S TALE
Season Three (2019)

Creators
Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller

Saturday, March 29, 2025

Watching

THE HANDMAID’S TALE
Season Three (2019)

Creators
Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller

Thursday, March 27, 2025

Watching

THE HANDMAID’S TALE
Season Two (2018)

Creators
Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller

Directors
Mike Barker, Kari Skogland, Jeremy Podeswa

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Watching

THE HANDMAID’S TALE
Season Two (2018)

Creators
Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller

Directors
Mike Barker, Kari Skogland, Jeremy Podeswa

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Watching

THE HANDMAID’S TALE
Season Two (2018)

Creators
Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller

Directors
Mike Barker, Kari Skogland, Jeremy Podeswa

Thursday, March 13, 2025

MARGARET ATWOOD
The Handmaid's Tale

This might be the last time I have to wait, but I don't know what I'm waiting for. What are you waiting for, I used to say. That meant hurry up. No answer was expected. For what are you waiting is a different question. And I have no answer for that one either. Yet, it isn't waiting exactly. It's more like a form of suspension, without suspense. At last, there is no time.

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

MARGARET ATWOOD
The Handmaid's Tale

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

Saturday, March 8, 2025

Watching

THE HANDMAID'S TALE
Season One (2017)

Creators
Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller

Directors
Reed Morano, Mike Barker, Floria Sigismondi, Kate Dennis, Kari Skogland

Friday, March 7, 2025

Watching

THE HANDMAID'S TALE
Season One (2017)

Creators
Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller

Directors
Reed Morano, Mike Barker, Floria Sigismondi, Kate Dennis, Kari Skogland

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Reading

Margaret Atwood
PAPER BOAT
New and Selected Poems 1961-2023

Sunday, November 10, 2024

Reading

Margaret Atwood
SURFACING

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.