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8 - Birthday: language

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“these are the kinds of litanies I use, to compose myself”

“this is a reconstruction”

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8 - Birthday: freedom

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“on this day we can do anything we want. I revise that: within limits”

“sometimes you can find things out, on birth days”

“someone has spiked the grape juice”

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8 - Birthday: Freedom in red centre

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“women being raped, beaten up, killed”

“Moira had power now, she’d been set loose, she’d set herself loose”

“Their power had a flaw to it”

“already we were losing the taste for freedom, already we were finding these walls secure”

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8 - Birthday: dystopia giving birth

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“No anaesthetics even”

“the chances are one in four”

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8 - Birthday: women giving birth

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“she glows like a moon in cloud”

“that whiny Bitch Janine”

“little whores, all of them”

“Birthing stool… back one raised like a throne”

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8 - Birthday: women after giving birth

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“never be sent to the colonies”

“she’ll be allowed to nurse the baby, for a few months, they believe in mother’s milk”

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8 - Birthday: wives

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“something has to be done to dispel their envy”

“they massage her tiny belly, just as if she’s really about to give birth herself”

“as if it’s a bouquet of flowers: something she’s won”

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8 - Birthday: aunts

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“for every rule there is always an exception… the Aunts are allowed to read and write”

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8 - Birthday: Cora

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“she hopes, and I am the vehicle for her hope” …

“would rather have the disapproval, I feel more worthy of it”

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8 - Birthday: religion

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“it was from the bible, or so they said”

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8 - Birthday: mob mentality

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“the muscles in our backs and bellies hurt from the strain”

“we are no longer single”

“we are one smile, tears run down our cheeks, we are so happy”

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8 - Birthday: wives power

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“the baby, washed now and quiet, is placed ceremoniously in her arms”

“It’s the wives who do the naming”

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8 - Birthday: commanders powers

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“we are for breeding purposes: we aren’t concubines”

“To want is to have a weakness”

“I win the first game, I let him win the second”

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8 - Birthday: Rebellion

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“an oasis of the forbidden”

“the counters are like candies”
“the feeling is voluptuous”

“I think about the blood coming out of him, hot as soup, sexual, over my hands”

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8 - Birthday: Offred’s mum

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“you were a wanted child”

“accused me of being a pronatalist”

“a man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women”

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9 - Night: Rebellion

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“I must forget about my secret name and all ways back”

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9 - Night: women

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“I have viable ovaries. I have one more chance”

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9 - Night: make up

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“carefully made up, heavy mascara”

“What I remember now, most of all, is the makeup”

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9 - Night: Power

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“Men are sex machines, said Aunt Lydia… you must learn to manipulate them for your own good”

“man who had supervised one of the camps”

“How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all”

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5 - soul scrolls: dissent

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“small mean-minded bitter jokes about her”

“such magazines had all been destroyed”

“what was in them was promise”

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5 - soul scrolls: Rebellion

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“do you think god listens… to these machines?”

“treason”

“you were always so stinking pious”

“There is an us then, there’s a we”

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5 - soul scrolls: failed rebellion

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“sad graffiti, scrawled once, abandoned”

“That’s just a joke”

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5 - soul scrolls: flowers

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“Whatever is silenced will clamour to be heard, though silently”

“some Kamikaze, committed on the swelling genitalia of the flowers?”

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5 - soul scrolls: wives

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“the difficulty is the wife, as always”

“they get sick a lot… it adds interest to their lives”

“felt guilty about her. I felt I was an intruder”

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5 - soul scrolls: Marthas

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“The Marthas don’t want to be forced to retire, because who knows where they go?”

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5 - soul scrolls: power of the commander

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“the first time, I realised, he’d let me win”

“truly ignorant of the real conditions under which we lived”

“what I have on him is his guilt”

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5 - soul scrolls: power of the commander’s wife

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“transgressions of the women in the household… under the jurisdiction of the wives alone”

“I now had a power over her… and I enjoyed that”

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5 - soul scrolls: commander as human

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“who else could I show it to?”

“He was no longer a thing to me. That was the problem”

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5 - soul scrolls: Handmaids

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“I knew I was dispensable”
“Our skin gets very dry”

“If your dog dies, get another”

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5 - soul scrolls: dystopia

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“could they all be extinct, like the whales? I’ve heard that rumour”

“but vacant, it also has potential, like a storm approaching”

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5 - soul scrolls: religion

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“recycled in to fresh paper again”

“the machines run by themselves”

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5 - soul scrolls: terror

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“there must have been microphones”

“slam him back against the Black side of the van”

“what I feel is relief”

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5 - soul scrolls: terror - Gilead is born

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“shot the president and machine gunned the congress”

“They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics at the time”

“wasn’t even any rioting in the streets”

“wasn’t even an enemy you could put your finger on”

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5 - soul scrolls: oppression - Gilead is born

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“open fire almost as soon as any of the marches even started”

“newspapers were censored and some were closed down”

“you can’t work here anymore. It’s the law”

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11 - Night: Surveillance

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“the eyes of God run all over the earth”

“It could have been a neighbour”

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11 - Night: Religion

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“she wanted us to look like something Anglo-Saxon, carved on a tomb”

“I don’t believe for an instant that what’s going on out there is what You meant”

“I feel so alone”

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11 - Night: Religion

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“she wanted us to look like something Anglo-Saxon, carved on a tomb”

“I don’t believe for an instant that what’s going on out there is what You meant”
“I feel so alone”

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12 - Jezebel’s: Moon

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“But I tell time by the Moon. Lunar, not solar”

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12 - Jezebel’s: Religion -

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“a lot of them emigrated, if you can believe the news” (Jews)

“we’re off to the prayvaganza, to demonstrate how obedient and pious we are”

“eve… saved by childbearing”

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12 - Jezebel’s: Religion in Moira’s story

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Quakers “they gave me some clothes”

“he ended up on the wall”

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12 - Jezebel’s: sexism in the past

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“they’d throw buns at her”

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12 - Jezebel’s: infantisilised women

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“like a private girls’ school… everything had become overgrown”

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12 - Jezebel’s: women in Jezebels

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“working girls, from the time before… they couldn’t be assimilated”

“your gang are supposed to be such chaste vessels”

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12 - Jezebel’s: commander’s wife rebelling

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“maybe you should try it another way”

“takes the cigarette… presses it in to my hand”

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12 - Jezebel’s: the last handamaid’s rebellion

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“she was safe then, protected altogether, by the time Cora opened the door”

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12 - Jezebel’s: subversive rebellion

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“something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power”

“I must beware of inertia”

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12 - Jezebel’s: Moira’s rebellion

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“burn you up with the garbage, like an unwoman”

“risking their lives for you when they didn’t have to”

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12 - Jezebel’s: Jezebels as rebellious

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“such a sneer at the aunts, so sinful, so free”

“they even give you face cream”

“three or four good years until your snatch wears out”

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12 - Jezebel’s: flowers

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“not a dandelion in sight here”

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12 - Jezebel’s: Commander and the time before

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“the main problem was with the men. There was nothing for them anymore”

“inability to feel”

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12 - Jezebel’s: commander’s justification

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“better never means better for everyone”

“We’ve given them more than we’ve taken away… think of the human misery”

“this way they’re protected, they can fulfil their biological destinies in peace”

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12 - Jezebel’s: the commander in Jezebels

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“It’s like walking in to the past”

“nature demands variety, for men”

“surely his motivations are more delicate”

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12 - Jezebel’s: Time

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“point of view of future history, this kind, we’ll be invisible”

“time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away

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12 - Jezebel’s: the regime

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“there was furniture overturned, the mattress was ripped open”

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12 - Jezebel’s: language

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“there is a bomb in Gilead”

“I don’t have to tell anything, to myself or to anyone else”

“You’ll have to forgive me”

“I’d like to tell a story about how Moira escaped”

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12 - Jezebel’s: language

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“there is a bomb in Gilead”

“I don’t have to tell anything, to myself or to anyone else”

“You’ll have to forgive me”

“I’d like to tell a story about how Moira escaped”

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12 - Jezebel’s: Indoctrination

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“are they old enough to remember anything of the time before”

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12 - Jezebel’s: Utopia

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“stories you’d read… in ditches, or forests, or refrigerators”

“If you worked out enough maybe the man would too”

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12 - Jezebel’s: Nick

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“both of us are functionaries”

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12 - Jezebel’s: power

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“he is showing me off… he is showing off to me”
“he’s breaking the rules, under their noses”
“they’ll know you’re taken”
“will this be worse, to have him denuded, of all his cloth power?”

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12 - Jezebel’s: makeup

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“their mouths too red, too wet, blood-dipped and glistening”

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12 - Jezebel’s: Moira

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“she’s dressed absurdly… its too large”
“I don’t want her to be like me. Give in, go along, save her skin”
“I don’t know how she ended, or even if she did, because I never saw her again”

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12 - Jezebel’s: mirror

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“here they haven’t removed the mirror”

“You need to know, here, what you look like”

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12 - Jezebel’s: colonies

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“skin pulls away like rubber gloves” #
“all of them wear long dresses”

“handmaids who’ve screwed up their three chances and incorrigibles like me”

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13 - Night: Rebellion

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“the searchlights are off, which is not usual. A power failure. Or else Serena Joy has arranged it”

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13 - Night: Nick

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“the room is stripped down, military, minimal”
“his mouth is on me, his hands”
“I made that up”
"possibly he feels used”
“holds me that way, for comfort”
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14 - Salvaging: language

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“I wish this story were different”

“this limping and mutilated story”

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14 - Salvaging: Rebellion with Nick

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“I went back to Nick… expecting at any moment to feel the bullets rip through me”

“I tell him my real name, and feel that therefore I am known”

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14 - Salvaging: lack of desire to rebel

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“we huddle together while the storm goes on outside”

“the fact is that I no longer want to leave”

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14 - Salvaging: rebellion stopped

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“outbreak, I should say, of exactly similar crimes”

“the crimes of others are a secret language among us”

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14 - Salvaging: salvaging

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“television camera is discreetly off to the side”

“probably would have been given injections or pills, so they won’t make a fuss”

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14 - Salvaging: Ofglen’s death

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“unjustness and brutality of the regime”

“she has died that I may live”
“I never did know her real name… how you can get lost, in a sea of names”

“she hanged herself”

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14 - Salvaging: mob mentality

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“touch the rope in front of me”
“my complicity in the death of this woman”
“I want to tear, gouge, rend”
“we are permitted anything and this is freedom”

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14 - Salvaging: Oppression

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“he was a political, he was one of ours”
“I don’t want to be a doll hung up on the wall”
“I resign my body freely, to the uses of others”
“I feel, for the first time, their true power”

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14 - Salvaging: Commander’s wife

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“you could have left me something”

“just like the other one. A slut. You’ll end up the same”

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15 - Night: rebellion

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“red is so visible”
“a woman made in to an angel”
“I should have taken things in to my own hands while I had the chance”
“Its Mayday. Go with them”

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15 - Night: End

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“above him, looking down; he is shrinking”
“I was her hope, I’ve failed her”
“I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light”

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HN: History

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“believe that this period well repays further study”
“any documentation referring to them would have been destroyed”
“first wave of women recruited for reproductive purposes” “its genius was synthesis”

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HN: explanation of cause

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“age of plummeting Caucasian birth rates”
“availability of birth control”
“nuclear plant incidents”

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HN: explantation of regime

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“racist fears provided some of the emotional fuel that allowed the Gilead takeover”
“one boatload of Jews was simply dumped in to the Atlantic”

“when power is scarce, a little of it is tempting”
“Crack female control agency known as the ‘Aunts’” = “cost effective”

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HN: Rebellion

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“Gileadean civil wars”
“growing number of rebellions”
“infiltrated the Gileadean power structure at the highest levels”
“assassinated her himself”

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HN: Academia

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“Problems of Authentication”
“the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes”
“are there any questions?”

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HN: Misogyny

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“the obsolete third”
“the underground frailroad”
“undoubtedly patriarchal in form, occasionally matriarchal in content”

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HN: Narrative

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“music is broken off and the speaking voice takes over”
“nor were they numbered”
“reflective quality”

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