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How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all.
Ian McEwan - Atonement
#73. University of Coimbra
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Pablo Picasso
also, here.
FREDERICK
Patti SmithBye bye hey hey
Maybe we will come back some day now
But tonight on the wings of a dove
Up above to the land of love
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