More from The Penelopiad -- that Margaret Atwood is a smarty-pants!
"Many have said that there's no smoke without fire, but that is a fatuous argument. We've all heart rumours that later proved to be entirely groundless, and so it is with this rumours about me."
"Then he told me how much he'd missed me, and how he'd been filled with longing for me even when enfolded in the white arms of goddesses; and I told him how very many tears I'd shed while waiting twenty years for his return, and how tediously faithful I'd been, and how I would never have even so much as thought of betraying his gigantic bed with its wondrous bedpost by sleeping in it with any other man."
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