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Even if the outlines of her story are familiar, what we look for from Atwood is intricate characterization, a fully imagined alternative universe and an original turn of mind. There's not much of that in the story told by Snowman, formerly Jimmy, a survivor of the global calamity who now lives in a tree, attended by the Children of Crake. This is a mild-mannered tribe of bioengineered humans, more or less, if you don't count the phosphorescent skin (amazing what you can do with jellyfish genes) and the simian sexual practices...
...world we live in now, only more so. Even if the outlines of her story are familiar, what we look for from Atwood are intricate characterization, a fully imagined alternative universe and an original turn of mind. There's not much of that in the story told by Snowman, formerly Jimmy, a survivor of the global calamity who now lives in a tree, attended by the Children of Crake. This is a mild-mannered tribe of bioengineered humans, more or less, if you don't count the phosphorescent skin (amazing what you can do with jellyfish genes) and the simian...
...built it for fun, instead of building a snowman,” he said. “We built it specifically as a junior high prank...
...shiver of a sacred rite, in a secular cathedral, and what you experience is communion. Can't get that with a book, where it's just you and the words. Can't get it at the movies, where the performers have been caught in aspic, and the snowman is cryogenically preserved. Only theater traps and enfolds you in the present tense - and then it is past...
Sounds brilliant—except for the fact that the proposal will be surely laughed out of the legislature. Even Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham ’72 and House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, who normally get along like Frosty the Snowman and a tanning bed, are united in their opposition, pointing out that all a tax-free weekend will accomplish is a consolidation of November and December retail activity into one weekend. Dartboard envisions overcrowded stores, fistfights over parking spots and widespread pandemonium. Not to mention the empty malls on the weekend after the tax-free extravaganza...