‘All thoughts of revenge are born of the pain of helplessness.’I suffer’ becomes ‘You will suffer’. And let us not lie: Vengeance is invigorating. It focuses and enlivens us, and it quashes grief because it turns the emotion outward. In grief we go to pieces.’ (p. 112)
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Top haul from the bookshop today. Happy to admit I now own #TheBlazingWorld on Kindle, audiobook and actual book. #History

How a cross-dressing, bullet-dodging, 17th century duchess blazed a trail for sci-fi Born 400 years ago, Margaret Cavendish was a philosopher, scientist – and the mother of a whole new genre of literature

Margaret Cavendish wrote the first sci-fi novel "The Blazing World" in 1666. I wonder about her laugh.
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