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
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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About Margaret Atwood
Atwood's works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics". Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a very early age.
Atwood is a founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Writers' Trust of Canada. She is also a Senior Fellow of Massey College, Toronto. She is the inventor of the LongPen device and associated technologies that facilitate remote robotic writing of documents.