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‘but set down/This set down/This’: memory and identity in The Lonely Londoners and The Handmaid’s Tale

It’s nearly Christmas but I never need that excuse for ‘The Journey of the Magi’ to be in my head and I’m always drawn to the versification of the quotation above. I love the emphatic, almost excited repetition of the old man making his testimony, enhanced by the lack of punctuation between the two imperatives,Continue reading “‘but set down/This set down/This’: memory and identity in The Lonely Londoners and The Handmaid’s Tale”