Margaret Atwood Quote

CELLNow look objectively. You have toadmit the cancer cell is beautiful.If it were a flower, you'd say, with its mauve centre and pink petalsof if a cover for a pulpy thirtiessci-fi magazine. as an alien, a success,all purple eye and jelly tentaclesand spines, or are they gills,creeping around on granular Martiandirt red as the inside of the body,while its tender wallsexpand and burst, its sporesscatter elsewhere, take root, like money,drifting like a fiction ormiasma in and out of people's brains, digging themselvesindustriously in. The lab techniciansays, But why remember? All it wants is moreamnesia. More life, and more abundantly. to takemore. to eat more. To replicate itself. To keep on

Margaret Atwood

CELLNow look objectively. You have toadmit the cancer cell is beautiful.If it were a flower, you'd say, with its mauve centre and pink petalsof if a cover for a pulpy thirtiessci-fi magazine. as an alien, a success,all purple eye and jelly tentaclesand spines, or are they gills,creeping around on granular Martiandirt red as the inside of the body,while its tender wallsexpand and burst, its sporesscatter elsewhere, take root, like money,drifting like a fiction ormiasma in and out of people's brains, digging themselvesindustriously in. The lab techniciansays, But why remember? All it wants is moreamnesia. More life, and more abundantly. to takemore. to eat more. To replicate itself. To keep on

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