Gut Symmetries (Vintage International) (edit title)

Benedicte edited the quotations of Gut Symmetries (Vintage International) Monday, November 23 2009.

• Added a quotation: “He kept secrets the way other people keep fish. They were a hobby, a fascination, his underwater collection of the rare and the strange. Occasionally something would float up to the surface, unexpected, unexplained. Mother said: "Why didn't you tell me?" Father said: "There was nothing to tell." I am my father's daughter.”
• Added a quotation: “Walk with me, through the night, the night air, the breathing particles of other lives. Breathe in, breathe out, steady now, not too fast on gassed lungs. I did not mean my words to poison you. Walk with me, walk it off, the excess fat of misery and fear. Too much to carry around the heart. Walk free.”
• Added a quotation: “I want to feel but with feeling comes pain. I could advise myself to keep out of complications and I won't pretend that I have had no choice in any of this. I have noticed that choices seem to be made in advance of what is chosen. The time gap in between the determining will and the determined event is a handy excuse to deny causality. In space-time there is always a lag between prediction and response, sometimes of a second, sometimes of years, but we programme events far more than we like to think.”
• Added a quotation: “Some people dream in colour, I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-decorated heart is wearing; who wants my blood red and vein-blue?”
• Added a quotation: “If my father had not been haunted by an imagined past, he would have been haunted by an imagined future. Standing still, he would have envied movement. Moving, he longed to stand still. He was not a dissatisfied man. He was a man who could never quite learn the lines he had scripted for himself. Even at his most enthusiastic for a role, some part of him could not forget that it was a role. He did not know how to merge himself into one. A little less consciousness, or a little more, might have saved him. As it was he suffered.”
• Added a quotation: “Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough.”

Benedicte edited the quotations of Gut Symmetries (Vintage International) Monday, November 23 2009.

• Added a quotation: “"I can't go back into the past and change it, but I have noticed that the future changes the past. What I call the past is my memory of it and my memory is conditioned by who I am now. Who I will be. The only way for me to handle what is happening is to move myself forward into someone who has handled it."”

Shelfari edited the contributors of Gut Symmetries (Vintage International) Friday, October 9 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jeanette Winterson: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the description of Gut Symmetries (Vintage International) Saturday, August 1 2009.

• The highwire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, where gender is as elastic as matter, and any accurate Grand Unified Theory (GUT) must encompass desire alongside electromagnetism and gravity. One starry night on a boat in the mid-Atlantic, Alice, a brilliant English theoretical physicist, begins an affair with Jove, her remorselessly seductive American counterpart. But Jove is married. When Alice confronts his wife, Stella, she swiftly falls in love with her, with consequences that are by turns horrifying, comic, and arousing. Vaulting from Liverpool to New York, from alchemy to string theory, and from the spirit to the flesh, Gut Symmetries is a thrillingly original novel by England's most flamboyantly gifted young writer. "Winterson is unmatched among contemporary writers in her ability to conjure up new-world wonder...A beautiful, stirring and brilliant story."--Times Literary Supplement "Dazzling for <its> intelligence and inventiveness...<Winterson> is possessed of a masterly command of the language and a truly pliant imagination."--Elle "One of our most brilliant, visionary storytellers."--San Francisco Chronicle

Meggly edited the contributors of Gut Symmetries (Vintage International) Wednesday, July 29 2009.

• Removed a contributor: Janette Winterson: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the contributors of Gut Symmetries (Vintage International) Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Janette Winterson:

Shelfari edited the contributors of Gut Symmetries (Vintage International) Friday, July 17 2009.

• Added a contributor: Janette Winterson: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Gut Symmetries (Vintage International) Friday, July 17 2009.

• November 10 1493. Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Sun in Scorpio.