Jan 23, 2025
"but it's not easy being quiet and good, it's like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you've already fallen over; you don't seem to be moving, just dangling there, and it is taking all your strength."
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
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"but it's not easy being quiet and good, it's like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you've already fallen over; you don't seem to be moving, just dangling there, and it is taking all your strength."
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood sat down to write Alias Grace and she said imagine the personification of 19th century ideas about white femininity (madonna whore complex embodied in a celebrated murderess and lunatic who may also be a virginal brutalised victim and is certainly a menial domestic servant skilled in textile crafts with a submissive yet composed demeanour) and white masculinity (a spoiled upper class manbaby who immediately judges every woman he interacts with on how attractive he finds them and has nonstop violent sexual fantasies while thinking himself the pinnacle of civilisation and chivalry and rational scientific endeavour) and then showed the man fucking falling to pieces while the woman is like. you good bro
Home From the Library
While Clark was at the library with Annie Edith earned a promotion!
Not wanting to get into any more trouble, Grace DID stay home the entire day today! Playing video games which apparently is allowed while grounded! Facepalm...you can't go to school or your ballet recital while grounded, but you can play all the video games you want!
Hey look! It's Maggie! On a now rare outing downtown. Is she trying to tell Sheree it's time to go home?
Woot woot! Happy birthday to yet another toddler who's aged up!
We say goodbye to the Marks family with some more adorable pictures of their life!
And Grace chatting with her bestie!
I'm afraid he was very much indulged, not least by himself. For if the world treats you well, sir, you come to believe you're deserving of it.
ALIAS GRACE, Part Two (2017) Directed by Mary Harron Written by Sarah Polley
ALIAS GRACE (2017) dir. Mary Harron
I think of all the things that have been written about me: that I am an inhuman female demon; that I am an innocent victim of a blackguard, forced against my will and in danger of my own life; that I was too ignorant to know how to act and that to hang me would be judicial murder; that I am well and decently dressed, but I robbed a dead woman to appear so; that I am of a sullen disposition with a quarrelsome temper; that I have the appearance of a person rather above my humble station; that I am a good girl with a pliable nature, and no harm is told of me; that I am cunning and devious; that I am soft in the head, and little better than an idiot. And I wonder: how can I be all these different things at once?
-Alias Grace