Covid-19

"Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion."

"That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on."

"Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were.

It hasn't happened this morning, either."

"Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some."

The Handmaid's Tale

MARGARET ATWOOD

Original meaning

"The distinction between first and repeated experience is that one represents all: but two, three, four, five, six, seven ad infinitum cannot. First experiences are discoveries of original meaning which the language of later experience lacks the power to express."

G.

JOHN BERGER