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Margaret Atwood:
The Edible Woman, afterword by Linda Hutcheon
Good Bones, afterword by Rosemary Sullivan
Murder in the Dark, afterword by Steven Heighton
Surfacing, afterword by Marie-Claire Blais
Yves Beauchemin, The Alley Cat, afterword by Kenneth Radu
Earle Birney, Turvey, afterword by Al Purdy
Neil Bissoondath, Digging Up the Mountains, afterword by David Staines
Marie-Claire Blais:
Mad Shadows, afterword by Daphne Marlatt
A Season in the Life of Emmanuel, afterword by Nicole Brossard
Fred Bodsworth, Last of the Curlews, originally with an introduction by John Stevens; later reissued with, instead, an afterword by Graeme Gibson
Frances Brooke, The History of Emily Montague, afterword by Lorraine McMullen
Ernest Buckler, The Mountain and the Valley, afterword by Robert Gibbs
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[521x700]"Please stop eating and pay attention," he said. "This is important." He paused to press the upper plate of his false teeth against: the roof of his mouth with the ball of his left thumb. It would come unstuck again every two minutes or so. He was left-handed, as was I until my parents made me switch, and as are my daughters Edith and Lily, or, as we call them affectionately, Edie Bucket and Lolly-boo.
"In the beginning there was absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing" he said. "But nothing implies something, just as up implies down and sweet implies sour, as man implies woman and drunk implies sober and happy implies sad. I hate to tell you this, friends and neighbors, but we are teensy-weensy implications in an enormous implication. If you don't like it here, why don't you go back to where you came from?
"The first something to be implied by all the nothing," he said, "was in fact two somethings, who were God and Satan. God was male. Satan was female. They implied each other, and hence were peers in the emerging power structure, which was itself nothing but an implication. Power was implied by weakness."
"God created the heaven and the earth," the old, long-out-of-print science fiction writer went on. "And the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Satan could have done this herself, but she thought it was stupid, action for the sake of action. What was the point? She didn't say anything at first.
In the end, the Lord gave Mankind the world. All the world was Man's, save for one garden. This is my garden, said the Lord, and here you shall not enter.
There was a man and a woman who came to the garden, and their names were Earth and Breath.
They had with them a small fruit which the Man carried, and when they arrived at the gate to the garden, the Man gave the fruit to the Woman, and the Woman gave the fruit to the Serpent with the flaming sword who guarded the Eastern Gate.
And the Serpent took the fruit and placed it upon a tree in the center of the garden.
Then Earth and Breath knew their clothedness, and removed their garments, one by one, until they were naked; and when the Lord walked through the garden he saw the man and the woman, who no longer knew good from evil, but were satisfied, and He saw it was good.
Then the Lord opened the gates and gave Mankind the garden, and the Serpent raised up, and it walked away proudly on four strong legs; and where it went none but the Lord can say.
And after that there was nothing but silence in the Garden, save for the occasional sound of the man taking away its name from another animal.
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