Margaret Atwood
Well I am back. How's everyone? Don't have as much time now, but glad to see some of the old gang are still here.
she reminds me of barbara streisand, who has been typed as ISFp
(I've always hated her and couldn't explain why)
I was just thinking Barbara Streisand too...
All Hail The Flying Spaghetti Monster
The third picture is the most typical. My guess is INFJ.
Any takers?
Well I am back. How's everyone? Don't have as much time now, but glad to see some of the old gang are still here.
Her books are very moralistic, so maybe strong
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.-Mark Twain
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
EII
But, for a certainty, back then,
We loved so many, yet hated so much,
We hurt others and were hurt ourselves...
Yet even then, we ran like the wind,
Whilst our laughter echoed,
Under cerulean skies...
bump because i'm reading one of her books and enjoying it rn.
this thread is old but eii sounds good. i hadn't thought about it all except for having a vague peripheral impression of ixfx.
“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”
“Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. God is love, they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh.
And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time.
There is a good deal of comfort, now, in remembering this.”
“When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.
Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.”
“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
“Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.”
Oh, I loved the Handmaids Tale... and a couple of others... but i enjoyed that the most. I love to read a book not knowing about the story/plot beforehand... and this was a joy to read.
Now this is a story all about how, my type got changed, turned upside down. Just wait for a minute and watch chatbox right there, & I'll tell how Gem became the moderator with blue hair.
In typology central friended and praised, on the picture thread was where she spent most her days. Chilling out, selfies, relaxing all cool, And all typing some people and getting them schooled.
When a couple of girls who were up to no good, Started annoying her & her friends in the forumhood, She got in one little flame war & got pissed off & said 'I'm moving in with that exboyfriend in the forum with the socionics toffs.
So Gem pulls up to the forum for a year without being a hater, And yells to typocentral 'Yo creeps! Smell Ya later', Became a mod in her kingdom she was finally there, To sit on her throne as the mod with blue hair.
InvisibruJim
'Alias Grace', and 'Oryx and Crake': other great novels.
There was a thread started about her several years ago with about a dozen posts. Maybe this one and that one could be blended together?
http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin...argaret-Atwood
She is a deeply pessimistic women, who believes humanity will destroy itself on many fronts. If that means anything about her personality.
Yeah, the forum search sucks, common complaint. Try the google search option on the right hand side of the front page. It searches only the forum. It's what I use.
ESI is the most probable type for her imo
Last edited by Amber; 01-14-2015 at 05:43 AM.
Fi lead, maybe EII
Se/Ni > Si/Ne.
I think that she is irrational, particularly because she has emphasized multiple times that her writing represents, "what is" (i.e., "I am just describing reality"). Lots of Se/Ni imagery. The Handmaid's Tale is far from her best work, it is only her most famous. Cat's Eye is much better.
SEE-Fi
Te-HA/Ti-POLR makes sense.
Also 5w4 realm and SX/SO.
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