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Published · transcript-backedMentions personal use of the Gideons.
24 Apr 2019 Conversations with Tyler Margaret Atwood on Canada, Writing, and Invention (Live at Mason)
“I always used to be able to depend on the Gideons because no matter what else you were doing, there would always be a Bible in the hotel room.”
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- Margaret Atwood
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- 24 Apr 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Question from the iPad. What are you reading right now? I’m editing a book, so that means I’m not reading much. But I noticed an interesting trend. I always used to be able to depend on the Gideons because no matter what else you were doing, there would always be a Bible in the hotel room. They’re dwindling away. You can no longer read about wholesale massacres in the land of Canaan. I don’t tend to cart around big heavy books with me when I’m traveling. I used to be able to depend on one being there, but they’re failing. Hi. I’m an annual visitor to the Stratford and Shaw festivals, and I was wondering if you could tell this audience —…
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