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S16, Ep10 How To Fail: Margaret Atwood on wisdom, witchcraft and womanhood

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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Is That a Wild Invention?

I know some poets who went back and took all the punctuation out of their previous poems. I would never do that. So if I found a typo, I would want that corrected in the next printing. But as for taking stuff out and rearranging it, these documents are historical by the time you get to rereading them. Why would you waste your time reading your own work when you have more of your own work to write? Well, talking of history, I read that you had a rule with the TV adaptation of the Hamades Tale. Yeah, that was the rule for the book. And it wasn't me imposing that rule on the writing team. They adopted it of their

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