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  1. Jan 2025
    1. I'm a cloud, congealed around acentral object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am andglows red within its translucent wrapping.

      Her true identity, that is, what differentiates her from other women is "cloud" like now, and what is more real is her central object, her womb, her fertility. Much more real than her entirety.

      Also symbolizes the way men pick women apart into components rather than as a whole.

    2. once had a garden. I can remember the smell of the turned earth, theplump shapes of bulbs held in the hands, fullness, the dry rustle of seedsthrough the fingers.

      Juxtaposed with the Commander's Wife, the artificial neatness. The fakeness. The inauthenticity

      Symbol of fertility dwindling, and she feels that when she had been fertile, time went faster. Now, time is always threatening her, being menacing.

      AND, she connects this to the motif of emptiness and fullness. Time passes nicely when she is full -- fertile.

  2. Sep 2024
    1. flushed the handful of egg, which could not besalvaged

      What does this symbolize? The egg in the earlier chapters (symbol of fertility) going down and being unable to be salvaged.

    2. I've learned to do without a lot of things. If you have a lot of things, saidAunt Lydia, you get too attached to this material world and you forget aboutspiritual values. You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek.

      Which contradicts her desire to treat her body, to have skin cream, forcing her to use even butter. Both women are pitted against each other because they have one but not the other -- one has their fertility and the other has their vanity.

  3. Apr 2024
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    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWVrz5oCt2w<br /> The meaning of Hand Gestures in Art History<br /> Amuze Art Lectures

      Middle and ring fingers together to represent modesty. (He doesn't say it, but it also could stand for "M" as in Medici??)

      Finger pointing at viewer may indicate a self portrait.

      Woman's hand on abdomen may represent pregnancy, a fertile marriage, or the desire to bear children.

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    1. Unwin, H. J. T., Hillis, S., Cluver, L., Flaxman, S., Goldman, P. S., Butchart, A., Bachman, G., Rawlings, L., Donnelly, C. A., Ratmann, O., Green, P., Nelson, C. A., Blenkinsop, A., Bhatt, S., Desmond, C., Villaveces, A., & Sherr, L. (2022). Global, regional, and national minimum estimates of children affected by COVID-19-associated orphanhood and caregiver death, by age and family circumstance up to Oct 31, 2021: An updated modelling study. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 6(4), 249–259. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(22)00005-0

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  11. Sep 2021
    1. Viki Male on Twitter: “Updating my single-slide summary on the safety of #COVID19 #vaccines in #pregnancy to include new data from the V-safe pregnancy registry that came out while I was on holiday.... 1/ https://t.co/ij9qqFob69” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved September 2, 2021, from https://twitter.com/VikiLovesFACS/status/1432978088581861376

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  14. Jun 2021
    1. "Fertility Regulating Vaccines," World Health Organization, 1993.

      Title: Fertility Regulating Vaccines

      Subtitle: "Report of a meeting between women's health advocates and scientists to review the current status of the development of fertility regulating vaccines."

      Event: Geneva, Switzerland 17-18 August, 1992

      Publisher: World Health Organization

    1. For almost half a century, the average number of children per woman has been around 1.7, well below the replacement level of approximately 2.1 needed for a constant population size. This causes every new generation to be smaller in size than the previous one, resulting in a dwindling share of young people in the population, a process sometimes referred to as “dejuvenation”. It also leads to an increase in the so-called grey pressure, that is, an increase in the ratio between the over-65s and people in the age group 20 to 65 years.

      'grey pressure' is a genius term and these are good demographic numbers right here.

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