Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.

I thanked everyone whose job it ever was to lay hands on the skin of strangers, and I gave general thanks that I was lying facedown in a warm puddle of soap and not a warm puddle of blood in some corner of this incomprehensible city.

For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 'And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived in the transgression.

Written By Margaret Atwood

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