Caroline Bird and Helen Mort
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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I Know What I Have Done, I Do Not Know What You Have Received
There was a lot of mythology around women having supposedly been kidnapped by First Nations Americans and forcibly tattooed. In reality, usually either they had them done with their own free will or it was their husband or their brother or someone like that who had started this office of money spinning things. I am really interested in the difference between Antonio Porchia idea of I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received. You might be curious about the hands. If you wanted, you might ask, who held me steady and who made the mark?
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