Weight (2005) (edit title/settings)

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• Atlas: Titan made to carry the world on his shoulders.
• Posieden: God of the seas, Atlas' father.
• Earth: Atlas' mother
• Zeus: Lord of the Sky
• Hera: Goddess, Zeus' wife
• Heracles: Son of Zeus and a mortal woman.
• Ladon: Serpent guarding Hera's tree with the golden apples.
• Deianeira: Heracle's wife, daughter of Dionysus
• Iole: Daughter of King Eurytus. Heracles won her in an archery contest, but her father refused to give her up.
• Nessus: a centaur
• Laika: a dog
• Hippolyte: Add a description of this character.

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• “A wall well built with invisible spaces will allow the winds that rage against it to pass through. When the earth underneath it trembles, the spaces make room for movement and settlement. The wall stands. The wall's strength is not in the stones but in the spaces between the stones. It's a joke against me I think, that for all my strength and labour, the wall relies on nothing.”

  Atlas

• “He would not die today. But he knew he would die. Sometimes he thought it was a strange life, this life of avoiding death.”

  Heracles

• “No hero can be destroyed by the world. His reward is to destroy himself. Not what you meet on the way, but what you are, will destroy you, Heracles.”

  Hera

• “If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own.”

  Jeanette Winterson

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• Let me crawl out from under this world I have made. It doesn’t need me any more. Strangely, I don’t need it either. I don’t need the weight. Let it go. There are reservations and regrets, but let it go. I want to tell the story again.

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• Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.

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• ‘Humankind continues in ignorance because knowledge destroys them. Everything that man invents he soon turns to his own destruction.

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• What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Your first parent was a star.

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1. Jeanette Winterson (Author)

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• Dewey: 823.914

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( W ) › Winterson, Jeanette
• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Mythology
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Fairy Tales

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