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How to Be Both by Ali Smith (2014): A Review

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“And did you know...that Rosalind Franklin nearly didn't get credited for the double helix discovery?
Though she took the original X-ray that meant Crick and Watson could make their discovery....
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Abstract shape formed by words and painted in warm colors and gray

Ha I was going to do something green for St. Patrick's Day but this is what happened. It's a quote from a book by #AliSmith that I'm obsessed with. 'The root in the dark makes its way under the ground before there's any sign of the tree.' Word art inspired by #EsteMacleod #HowToBeBoth #watercolor

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“Shouldn't women dress up in some sort of uniforms…wear medals according to how many children they've had…dinners they've cooked…or how many patients they've nursed?”

“Cause I met many female Marses and Joves in the house….”
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…Rosalind Franklin nearly didn't get credited for the double helix…she took the original X-ray that meant Crick and Watson could make their discovery…
Watson saw her giving a talk…he thought she ought to have been warmer…taken off her glasses and done something with her hair.
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Is it happening now or in the past? George says. Is the artist a woman or a man?
Do either of those things matter? her mother says….
Past or present? George says. Male or female? It can’t be both. It must be one or the other.
Who says? Why must it? her mother says.
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…he wrote in disapproving terms…it would not be suitable to dress Venus or Minerva in the rough wool cloak of a soldier…or Jove in the clothes of a woman.
Cause I met many female Marses and Joves in the house and many Venuses and Minervas in and out of all sorts of clothes.

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I agree with you. Some of it is really outstandingly beautiful. Some of it is breathtaking. And I find it pretty interesting that the only reason we know that the painter who did that wall existed, even lived at all, is that he asked for more.
Like Oliver Twist, George says.

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The Goldsmiths Prize The Goldsmiths Prize was established in 2013 to celebrate the qualities of creative daring associated with the University and to reward fiction that breaks the mould or opens up new possibilities for the novel form.

Ali Smith has won Sterne-inspired @GoldsmithsPrizefor her novel #Howtobeboth - we're looking forward to reading it!

gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-pri…

The Goldsmiths Prize The Goldsmiths Prize was established in 2013 to celebrate the qualities of creative daring associated with the University and to reward fiction that breaks the mould or opens up new possibilities for the novel form.

Ali Smith has won Sterne-inspired @GoldsmithsPrizefor her novel #Howtobeboth - we're looking forward to reading it!

gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-pri…