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The title refers to
about whom the Oliverio statement
"Ms. Atwood is my favorite living author"
borders on 100% accuracy
But the Oliverio statement
referred to in the title is this:
There are no coincidences,
there are only divine parallels
This statement
—along with 100 Oliverio-isms—
was copyrighted in 1981
before this New Yorker moved
to California
AND
it had an utterly frightening
re-birth
while reading Margaret's novel
this month
!!!
As a confirmed book-a-holic,
I typically read a book
cover-to-cover
and within twenty-four hours
of completion,
I am unto the next book
The preceding paragraph is
pretty damn close to
ninety-nine percent
accurate
Had I known that
The Blind Assassin
was longer than
five hundred pages,
I never would have purchased
the novel that won
However,
if I am to read
one long novel
in the unforeseeable last year
of my life
I truly believe
that book will be
The Blind Assassin
Without further jabberwocky
from this blogger,
I will list a pair of
Divine Parallels
between
Ms. Atwood's novel
and my personal life
1.
Ten days ago,
I posted one and only one page
on Mother's Day
It featured
a treasured photograph
of my own mother
On that day,
I read the chapters
of The Blind Assassin
focused on the death
of the narrator's mother
Despite having ample reading time
available on that day
I had to put the book aside
because reading about
a fictional maternal death
on Mother's Day,
reduced my
heart and soul
and my alleged mind
to jelly
2.
The most important date
mentioned in the novel
is the Eighteenth of May
in the year 1945
when the narrator's sister
mysteriously dies
An event described
in the first sentence
on the first page
The Blind Assassin
On May 18, 1945,
I was exactly
negative four years old
Too many
preceding blog pages
were devoted to
May 18, 2023
otherwise known as
my 74th birthday
©©©
TO BE CONTINUED
[w/divine parallel
or Jim Brown,
et al]
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