Weight

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Jeanette Winterson. Weight

CONTENTS

Introduction

I want to tell the story again

Weight of the World

Heracles

Thought-Wasp

Three Golden Apples

No Way Out …

But Through

Leaning on the Limits of Myself

Private Mars

Hero of the World

Woof!

Boundaries

Desire

I want to tell the story again

WEIGHT

Also by Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel. Since then she has published many other novels, including The Passion, Written on the Body, andThe PowerBook, a collection of short stories, a book of essays, children's picture books, and the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She adapted her work for TV, film and stage. In 2006 she was awarded an OBE for services to literature.

Sedimentary rock is formed over vast expanses of time, as layer upon layer of sediment is deposited on the sea bottom.

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It was mankind who attacked quiet Atlantis, and Zeus who helped them to destroy my people. I escaped, and joined the revolt against the heavens. I was the war-leader, the one who had lost most and had little to fear. What can a man fear with nothing to lose?

In the long fighting, most of us were killed, and my mother, out of her secret nature, promised victory to Zeus. What Titans were left were banished to Britain, where the cold inhospitable rocks are worse than death. I was spared for my great strength.

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