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she’s got a plaguey tattoo!

“You're talking as if Miranda is just a rag doll. As if she’s just lying around with her legs open, draping herself over the furniture like wet spaghetti with a sign on her saying, Rape Me. But it wouldn’t be like that. First off, she’s a strong girl. She hasn’t been tied up in corsets and stuffed into glass slippers and such at court. She’s a tomboy; she’s been clambering all over that island since she was three.

“Then they stab Prospero, because the stupid klutz has let Ariel go free by then, what an idiot, so Prospero’s not magic any more. They go to deal with Gonzalo, who’s halfway dead of fright anyway, but he has a stroke before they need to kill him, and he just falls over. Then they rape Miranda—sorry, Anne-Marie, but that’s how it would go down—and they include Caliban in on the rape..."

(SnakeEye Antonio ending)

“My brave spirit!” he cries. He’d like to give her a hug,
but that’s not possible. Prospero and Ariel never touch:
how can you touch a spirit? Right now he can’t even see
her. He’ll have to be content with the voice.

(Felix reflecting on Miranda's "decision" to understudy Ariel where Miranda and Ariel are both "spirits")

Miranda’s made a decision: she’ll be understudying
Ariel—surely he can’t raise any objections to that.
How clever of her, how perfect! She’s found the one part
that will let her blend in seamlessly at rehearsals. Only he
will be able to see her, from time to time. Only he will hear
her. She’ll be invisible to every eyeball else.

(Felix hearing Miranda's voice playing Ariel after practising in the mirror) uhm what???

But real life is brilliantly colored, says another part of his
brain. It’s made up of every possible hue, including those we
can't see. All nature is a fire: everything forms, everything
blossoms, everything fades. We are slow clouds. . .

(Felix)

Idiot, he tells himself. How long will you keep yourself
on this intravenous drip? Just enough illusion to keep you
alive. Pull the plug, why don’t you? Give up your tinsel
stickers, your paper cutouts, your colored crayons. Face the
plain, unvarnished grime of real life.

oh??? what's happening

The poor girl is trapped in the middle of the ocean with a testosterone-sodden thug who wants to rape her and an ancient dad who’s totally off
his gourd. No wonder she throws herself into the arms of the first sane-looking youth who bumbles her way. Get me out of here! is what she’s really saying to Ferdinand. Isn’t it?

(Felix's inner monologue about Miranda in the play)

ok so NOW it's getting really interesting!!!!

ok i'm SO glad he's finally got his job (chapter 8)

to be honest... not that interesting so far. a lot of "he [verb] like thought/did this/realised etc" and rhetorical questions. lots of third person, not that much progression of the plot. or comedy. or character development or anything.
there are references to the tempest, like okay, but it's not doing too much at this point in the book.

let it be known i am reading this entirely against my will with a gun to my head

Hayat hep böyle mi olucak

books that make me miss acting (← girl whose production closed not even a month ago)

this guy hallucinates his dead daughter dude what the heck

Fast read and interesting but I feel that it was lacking something...

I'm engrossed!! My eyes can't read this fast enough

"...The animalskin cape was a bridge too far. They saw the sketches. They say you’d have the animal rights activists down on us like a swarm of hornets.”
“That’s ridiculous,” said Felix. “Those aren’t real animals, they’re children’s toys!”
“As you must realize,” said Tony with condescending patience, “that isn’t the point. They look like animals."

🤣🤣

i'm loving this book but im so anxious for the third act conflict that it pains me to keep reading :')

ugh i kinda hate you felix you’re mad

bitch u fucking crazy

Atwood introducing an undercurrent of Indigenous land ownership besides the backdrop of Incarceration within an interpolation of the Tempest and Shakespeare's Caliban. Perfect, no notes and incredibly intelligent.
i pray this goes into deep critique or commentary and doesn't just drop off.

anne-marie is the most relatable character in this book. i too crave a free burger and fries

I actually started this like 2 days ago but forgot to put it on, but I have to read this for school so here we are. I love Margaret Atwood’s writing and I feel like the story is really interesting but the annotating and stuff is really killing me like I just don’t want tooooo

felix was the first person to be successfully cancelled in 2013 #byesister

we're back on the school lit grind...

this was weird and kinda hard to get through but an interesting way to read the tempest as i have not read the original

Die Sprache ist amüsant aber ich habe mir bei dem Titel was anderes erwartet 😅

je vois le bout !!!