Women On The Edge Of Time

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of a constellation. Alice Blue Bottom, one of the psychiatric patients, represents the idea that the present world is at the Bottom of the universe and that the future is above people and is linearly forward.
Secondly, the language used in the future, words like kenner, grasp, and grafted, reflects an idea of knowledge and revelation. Luciente’s “watch” is actually a kenner she consults for knowledge. The word itself is taken from a Scottish word, ken, meaning knowledge. “ ‘Encyclopedia: define two-time loser.’ This time she saw that what she had taken for a watch on Luciente’s wrist was not only that, or not that at all…. ‘My kenner. Computer link? Actually it’s a computer as well, my own memory annex.’” (Piercy 50). Secondly, Grasp is used to grab attention before explaining complicated ideas to others. “Grasp, it’s a request but we wish it was a requisition. For what we want to do scientifically this winter.” (Piercy, 268). Rather than yelling at another person to ...

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