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Ruth Ozeki

My Year of Meats

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  • Marina Zalashared an impression7 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot
    💞Loved Up

    I think i doesn't want to eat red meat anymorw aftet reading some disgusting fact about cow industry 😓😢😱

  • Soliloquios Literariosshared an impression4 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot

Quotes

  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted4 years ago
    She says, just prior to the section you quote, “In the Year of Meats, truth wasn’t stranger than fiction; it was fiction.... Maybe sometimes you have to make things up, to tell truths that alter outcomes.” Without the power of the imagination we lack the power to alter outcomes, so if we can’t imagine better outcomes in a better world, we cannot act to achieve these. You can’t make something you can’t imagine first.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted4 years ago
    In the end, though, it is a tribute to the power of the imagination. You cannot make a better world unless you can imagine it so, and the first step toward change depends on the imagination’s ability to perform this radical act of faith. I guess I see writing as a similar endeavor.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted4 years ago
    Of course, the climax occurred when I came across the information that the synthetic hormone D.E.S. had a history of misuse, as not only as a pregnancy drug for women, but as a growth stimulant for cattle. Suddenly the metaphor was no longer simply a literary conceit. It was frighteningly real: women weren’t just like cows; women and cattle were being given the identical drug, with equal disregard for safety. I realized then that Jane was a D.E.S. daughter, and it was a moment of exquisite and horrifying resonance.

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