The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
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This is a book about the conservative and contaminated future. It's really good but I'm sending it away because every time I read it I feel sad.
You know that theory that God is infinite and so can create infinite worlds and so any slight permutation of anything imaginable can happen in one of them? I have no plans to analyze that theory because the answer is unknowable, to people, but I use it to reassure myself sometimes ("In some universe, somewhere, I have been asked out by ____" "In some universe, somewhere, my pants are not icily clinging to my legs from biking 6 miles in the rain". In the context of this book, though, the theory is scary!
You know that theory that God is infinite and so can create infinite worlds and so any slight permutation of anything imaginable can happen in one of them? I have no plans to analyze that theory because the answer is unknowable, to people, but I use it to reassure myself sometimes ("In some universe, somewhere, I have been asked out by ____" "In some universe, somewhere, my pants are not icily clinging to my legs from biking 6 miles in the rain". In the context of this book, though, the theory is scary!
