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 Margaret Atwood reads from You Are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974) and Power Politics (Anansi, 1971). Atwood also answers audience questions about her work. 
                                                                                                                                      
 00:00- Unknown introducer makes an announcement about the room. [INDEX: Sir George Williams University, larger hall, gallery, Howard Fink.]
 00:21- Howard Fink answers question.
 00:22- Unknown introducer continues to make announcements. [INDEX: loud speakers outside, paintings, Fine Arts Department, artists, Howard Fink, air conditioning.]
 01:22- Audience talking
 01:30- Margaret Atwood talks about room set up, it is recorded by the mic [INDEX: room      change.]
 01:41- Audience responds, says they want to stay in the same room.
 01:44- Margaret Atwood tries to arrange people in the room. [INDEX: chairs, bench, people, rows, room.]
 04:41- Margaret Atwood continues to arrange audience.
 05:19- Wynne Francis introduces Margaret Atwood. [INDEX: poetry, fiction, poet, 1960’s, The   Circle Game (Anansi, 1966), The Animals in that Country (Oxford University Press, 1968), Edible Woman (McClelland and Stewart, 1973), Surfacing (Anansi, 1971), 1972, controversial work of criticism, patterns in Canadian literature, nineteenth-century curiosity, John McTaggart quote, book published in London in 1829, victim, Canada Council, woman, human being, totems, manners, insanities, taught at Sir George Williams University between 1967-68, audience questions.]
 07:38- Margaret Atwood introduces “Newsreel, Man and Firing Squad”. [INDEX:    	microphone, reading entirely from You are Happy (Harper & Row, 1974), photographer,      bookstore, order of reading, United States, what it’s like to live in Canada; from You Are    Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974).]
 10:04- Reads “Newsreel, Man and Firing Squad”.
 11:42- Reads “Useless”. [INDEX: from You Are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974).]
 12:35- Introduces “November”. [INDEX: image, sheep that died; from You Are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974)]
 12:48- Reads “November”.
 13:52- Reads “Repent”. [INDEX: from You Are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974).]
 14:47- Introduces “Tricks with Mirrors”. [INDEX: from You Are Happy (Oxford University 	Press, 1974).]
 15:05- Reads “Tricks with Mirrors”.
 17:45- Reads “You are Happy”. [INDEX: from You Are Happy (Oxford University Press,     1974).]
 18:48- Reads “First Prayer”. [INDEX: from You Are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974).]
 20:25- Introduces “Is/Not” (but does not read it). [INDEX: hot in rom, Howard Fink. light,     Saturday movies; from You Are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974).]
 22:18- Reads unknown poem, first line “You take my hand and I’m suddenly in a bad movie...”.
 23:13- Introduces “They Eat Out”. [INDEX: war between Superman and Captain Marvel,     dinner, Plastic Man, esoteric taste; from Selected poems, 1965-1975 (Oxford University    Press, 1976).]
 23:28- Reads “They Eat Out”.
 24:44- Introduces “Siren Song”. [INDEX: new book, students of seventeenth-century literature, answer; from Selected poems, 1965-1975 (Oxford University Press, 1976).]
 25:06- Reads “Siren Song”.
 26:12- Introduces “Circe/Mud Poems”, which is cut mid-sentence “The heads of eagles no longer interest me...”[INDEX: critic Allen Pearson, Montreal, Montreal Poet, Toronto,   Toronto Poet, “Siren Song”, woman, attract men, capes, costumes; from Selected poems, 1965-1975 (Oxford University Press, 1976)]
 26:57- Recording is CUT, repeats, begins mid-sentence reading unknown poem, which is cut mid-sentence “The heads of eagles no longer interest me...”, last line “They would rather be trees”.
 28:20- Reads “It is Not”. [INDEX: perhaps “IS/Not”; from You are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974) and Selected poems, 1965-1975 (Oxford University Press, 1976).]
 30:37- Introduces “There is Only One of Everything”. [INDEX: three last poems, heat; from You are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974) and Selected poems, 1965-1975 (Oxford University Press, 1976).]
 30:54- Reads “There is Only One of Everything”.
 32:20- Reads “Late August”. [INDEX: from You are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974) 	and Selected poems, 1965-1975 (Oxford University Press, 1976).]
 33:26- Introduces “Book of Ancestors”. [INDEX: last poem of the night; from You are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974) and Selected poems, 1965-1975 (Oxford University Press, 1976).]
 33:33- Reads “Book of Ancestors”.
 36:47- Wynne Francis thanks Margaret Atwood and opens the floor to discussion.
 37:04- Atwood asks for questions.
 37:28- Audience #1 (female) asks first question about Atwood’s nickname ‘witch’. [INDEX: nickname “witch”]
 37:30- Atwood answers question. [INDEX: speech given recently at Loyola, reviews,   	supernatural powers, hypnotize readers, reviews written by men, witchcraft, cross,     	vampires.]
 38:54- Audience #2 (male) asks question about the Edible Woman’s symbology of colours. [INDEX: Edible Woman, grayness, William Blake reference, emergence from chaos.]
 39:17- Margaret Atwood answers question. [INDEX: comparison, colour, descending, poem, book, life, grey, pattern, Dante’s Inferno, wood, state of being lost, hell, tortured souls.]
 40:19- Audience #2 (male) asks another question. [INDEX: Edible Woman, colours, complete emergence of man.]
 40:29- Margaret Atwood responds. [INDEX: not complete, beginning.]
 40:32- Audience #2 (male) responds. [INDEX: complete, universal aspect, emergence of man, colours, life.]
 40:39- Margaret Atwood responds. [INDEX: man, female heroine, pattern, universal meaning.]
 40:56- Audience #2 (male) responds. [INDEX: universal meaning, colour of darkness, greyness.]
 41:04- Margaret Atwood responds. [INDEX: correct.]
 41:07- Audience #2 (male) responds. [INDEX: universal meaning, colours, wrong.]
 41:14- Margaret Atwood responds. [INDEX: truth, correct pattern, critic of her own work,        interpretation.]
 41:34- Audience #3 (male) asks question about a screenplay. [INDEX: screen play, film.]
 41:39- Margaret Atwood responds [INDEX: finished in July, stages of making films, taking out   an auction [option?], payment, movie, rights, sell, script, written, package, director, money.]
 42:42- Audience #4 (female) asks question about film producers’ nationalities. [INDEX: American or Canadian]
 42:46- Margaret Atwood responds to question. [INDEX: English Canadian film industry, struggle, book, American symbolism, American independent producers, not MGM,       	faithful to the book, Maine, American film, ruining the symbolic pattern, Canada.]
 44:26- Audience #4 (female) asks another question. [INDEX: attempt to sell script in Canada.]
 44:30- Margaret Atwood responds to question. [INDEX: four or five screen plays which haven’t been made, Canadian, television play, CBC, screenplay for Edible Woman, Marie Clarie Blais, “Mad Shadows”, Canadian director and producer, film development corporations, commercial, novelists, publishing.]
 45:22- Wynne Francis asks a question about criticism. [INDEX: question, competition, speech on Wednesday at Loyola, comic tags, critical opponents, Koestler, Yogi [?], Komisars [?], literary critics, formalism, cultural and political awareness, ideal critic or ideal type of criticism.]
 45:51- Margaret Atwood responds. [INDEX: talents, criticism available to the reader, singer, dancer]
 46:08- Wynne Francis asks another question. [INDEX: combined talents, formal or cultural criticism]
 46:16- Audience Member #5 (male) asks question about body and knowledge. [INDEX: body of knowledge]
 46:20- Margaret Atwood answers question. [INDEX: body of knowledge, [Northrop] Frye, books, Yogi-ism [sp?], reading poetry, Komasar-isim [sp?], context of a poem]
 47:02- Margaret Atwood calls on audience member to ask question.
 47:08- Audience #6 (male) asks question about Quebec’s relation to Canada. [INDEX: Quebec, Canada]
 47:09- Margaret Atwood responds.
 47:11- Audience #6 (male) asks question about Quebecer’s relation to Canada. [INDEX: Quebecois, Canadian]
 47:15- Margaret Atwood responds. [INDEX: Quebecois, Marie Claire Blais, identity, Canadian, North-American, Western European culture, universalist]
 47:58- Audience #7 (female) asks question about the New Canadian Library Series. [INDEX: opinion of the New Canadian Library Series introductions]
 48:03- Margaret Atwood answers. [INDEX: quotation from the Joy of Cooking, puff pastry, critical apparatus, symbolic structuring, novel, comic]
 49:09- Audience #8 (female) asks question about irony. [INDEX: ironist, irony]
 49:22- Margaret Atwood answers question.
 49:31- Audience #8 (female) asks question about one line of Atwood’s poem. [INDEX: anger, ironic]
 49:41- Margaret Atwood answers question. [INDEX: double meaning, irony, definition of irony, character, modern literature]
 50:14- Audience #9 (female) asks question about a second Survival book. [INDEX: Survival 2.]
 50:16- Margaret Atwood answers question.
 50:22- Audience #9 (female) asks Atwood to elaborate.
 50:25- Margaret Atwood answers question. [INDEX: Survival 2, anthology, short pieces, permissions, expensive to produce, publish proposed table of contents, Ph.D. thesis, novel, second edition of Survival, paperback, General Publishing, Paper Jacks [?], New   Canadian Library, McMillan’s, publishing industry in Canada, new introduction]
 52:30- Audience #10 (male) asks question about favourite poets. [INDEX: favourite poet]
 52:33- Margaret Atwood answers question. [INDEX: favourite poet, favourite poems, Margaret Avison, P.K. Page, A.M. Klein, Michael Ondaatje, Al Purdy, mid-Sixties, Doug [Gordon] Jones, Cornflake boxes]
 53:31- Margaret Atwood responds to inaudible question. [INDEX: little magazines, Adrienne Rich, January.]
 54:02- Audience #11 (female) asks question about Surfacing being autobiographical. [INDEX: Surfacing, autobiographical.]
 54:11- Margaret Atwood responds. [INDEX: vaguely, plot, fiction, setting, characters, invent part of characters, parents, paranoid schizophrenic, amnesia, Edible Woman, food, reader’s reactions, comic invention.]
 55:20- Audience #12 (female) asks question about characters. [INDEX: psychological  	background, characters.]
 55:25- Margaret Atwood responds to question. [INDEX: believable, plot.]
 55:46- Audience #13 (male) asks question about Edible Woman. [INDEX: comical invention, Edible Woman.]
 55:49- Margaret Atwood responds to question.
 55:51- Audience #13 (male) asks question about the definition of comedy. [INDEX: definition of comedy.]
 55:54- Margaret Atwood responds to question. [INDEX: technical, Edible Woman, anti-comedy, form, young couple, series of misadventures, marriage, ending.]
 56:24- Audience #14 (male) asks question about latest writing. [INDEX: novel being written]
 56:24- Margaret Atwood responds to question. [INDEX: superstition, work in progress.]
 56:41- Audience #15 (female) asks question about Edible Woman [INDEX: Robinson Davies book.]
 56:49-57:01- Margaret Atwood and audience try to figure out which book was written by        Robinson Davies. [INDEX: Fifth Busienss, Nanticore, comedy.]
 57:02- Audience #15 (female) asks about selections in Survival. [INDEX: couple, town, married, Survival.]
 57:15- Margaret Atwood responds to question. [INDEX: humour, magic, next two chapters of Survival 2, Samuel Marchbanks, Fifth Business, Nanticore, magician figure, Canadian magicians, foreigners, Gwen[dolyn] MacEwen’s book No Man.]
 58:04- Audience #16 (female) asks question about No Man by Gwendolyn MacEwen. [INDEX: Novel.]
 58:04- Margaret Atwood responds to question. [INDEX: series of short stories, central story, pattern.]
 58:22- Audience #17 (male) asks question about selections made in Atwood’s reading [INDEX: poems read, best, most significant from the collection, selection choices.]
 58:45- Margaret Atwood responds to question. [INDEX: section #3, consists of 24 poems, too long, time constraints.]
 59:380 Wynne Francis thanks Margaret Atwood.
 59:46.85- END OF RECORDING.
	Margaret Atwood reads from You Are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974) and Power Politics (Anansi, 1971). Atwood also answers audience questions about her work.

	00:00- Unknown introducer makes an announcement about the room. [INDEX: Sir George Williams University, larger hall, gallery, Howard Fink.]
	00:21- Howard Fink answers question.
	00:22- Unknown introducer continues to make announcements. [INDEX: loud speakers outside, paintings, Fine Arts Department, artists, Howard Fink, air conditioning.]
	01:22- Audience talking
	01:30- Margaret Atwood talks about room set up, it is recorded by the mic [INDEX: room change.]
	01:41- Audience responds, says they want to stay in the same room.
	01:44- Margaret Atwood tries to arrange people in the room. [INDEX: chairs, bench, people, rows, room.]
	04:41- Margaret Atwood continues to arrange audience.
	05:19- Wynne Francis introduces Margaret Atwood. [INDEX: poetry, fiction, poet, 1960’s, The Circle Game (Anansi, 1966), The Animals in that Country (Oxford University Press, 1968), Edible Woman (McClelland and Stewart, 1973), Surfacing (Anansi, 1971), 1972, controversial work of criticism, patterns in Canadian literature, nineteenth-century curiosity, John McTaggart quote, book published in London in 1829, victim, Canada Council, woman, human being, totems, manners, insanities, taught at Sir George Williams University between 1967-68, audience questions.]
	07:38- Margaret Atwood introduces “Newsreel, Man and Firing Squad”. [INDEX: microphone, reading entirely from You are Happy (Harper & Row, 1974), photographer, bookstore, order of reading, United States, what it’s like to live in Canada; from You Are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974).]
	10:04- Reads “Newsreel, Man and Firing Squad”.
	11:42- Reads “Useless”. [INDEX: from You Are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974).]
	12:35- Introduces “November”. [INDEX: image, sheep that died; from You Are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974)]
	12:48- Reads “November”.
	13:52- Reads “Repent”. [INDEX: from You Are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974).]
	14:47- Introduces “Tricks with Mirrors”. [INDEX: from You Are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974).]
	15:05- Reads “Tricks with Mirrors”.
	17:45- Reads “You are Happy”. [INDEX: from You Are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974).]
	18:48- Reads “First Prayer”. [INDEX: from You Are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974).]
	20:25- Introduces “Is/Not” (but does not read it). [INDEX: hot in rom, Howard Fink. light, Saturday movies; from You Are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974).]
	22:18- Reads unknown poem, first line “You take my hand and I’m suddenly in a bad movie...”.
	23:13- Introduces “They Eat Out”. [INDEX: war between Superman and Captain Marvel, dinner, Plastic Man, esoteric taste; from Selected poems, 1965-1975 (Oxford University Press, 1976).]
	23:28- Reads “They Eat Out”.
	24:44- Introduces “Siren Song”. [INDEX: new book, students of seventeenth-century literature, answer; from Selected poems, 1965-1975 (Oxford University Press, 1976).]
	25:06- Reads “Siren Song”.
	26:12- Introduces “Circe/Mud Poems”, which is cut mid-sentence “The heads of eagles no longer interest me...”[INDEX: critic Allen Pearson, Montreal, Montreal Poet, Toronto, Toronto Poet, “Siren Song”, woman, attract men, capes, costumes; from Selected poems, 1965-1975 (Oxford University Press, 1976)]
	26:57- Recording is CUT, repeats, begins mid-sentence reading unknown poem, which is cut mid-sentence “The heads of eagles no longer interest me...”, last line “They would rather be trees”.
	28:20- Reads “It is Not”. [INDEX: perhaps “IS/Not”; from You are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974) and Selected poems, 1965-1975 (Oxford University Press, 1976).]
	30:37- Introduces “There is Only One of Everything”. [INDEX: three last poems, heat; from You are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974) and Selected poems, 1965-1975 (Oxford University Press, 1976).]
	30:54- Reads “There is Only One of Everything”.
	32:20- Reads “Late August”. [INDEX: from You are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974) and Selected poems, 1965-1975 (Oxford University Press, 1976).]
	33:26- Introduces “Book of Ancestors”. [INDEX: last poem of the night; from You are Happy (Oxford University Press, 1974) and Selected poems, 1965-1975 (Oxford University Press, 1976).]
	33:33- Reads “Book of Ancestors”.
	36:47- Wynne Francis thanks Margaret Atwood and opens the floor to discussion.
	37:04- Atwood asks for questions.
	37:28- Audience #1 (female) asks first question about Atwood’s nickname ‘witch’. [INDEX: nickname “witch”]
	37:30- Atwood answers question. [INDEX: speech given recently at Loyola, reviews, supernatural powers, hypnotize readers, reviews written by men, witchcraft, cross, vampires.]
	38:54- Audience #2 (male) asks question about the Edible Woman’s symbology of colours. [INDEX: Edible Woman, grayness, William Blake reference, emergence from chaos.]
	39:17- Margaret Atwood answers question. [INDEX: comparison, colour, descending, poem, book, life, grey, pattern, Dante’s Inferno, wood, state of being lost, hell, tortured souls.]
	40:19- Audience #2 (male) asks another question. [INDEX: Edible Woman, colours, complete emergence of man.]
	40:29- Margaret Atwood responds. [INDEX: not complete, beginning.]
	40:32- Audience #2 (male) responds. [INDEX: complete, universal aspect, emergence of man, colours, life.]
	40:39- Margaret Atwood responds. [INDEX: man, female heroine, pattern, universal meaning.]
	40:56- Audience #2 (male) responds. [INDEX: universal meaning, colour of darkness, greyness.]
	41:04- Margaret Atwood responds. [INDEX: correct.]
	41:07- Audience #2 (male) responds. [INDEX: universal meaning, colours, wrong.]
	41:14- Margaret Atwood responds. [INDEX: truth, correct pattern, critic of her own work, interpretation.]
	41:34- Audience #3 (male) asks question about a screenplay. [INDEX: screen play, film.]
	41:39- Margaret Atwood responds [INDEX: finished in July, stages of making films, taking out an auction [option?], payment, movie, rights, sell, script, written, package, director, money.]
	42:42- Audience #4 (female) asks question about film producers’ nationalities. [INDEX: American or Canadian]
	42:46- Margaret Atwood responds to question. [INDEX: English Canadian film industry, struggle, book, American symbolism, American independent producers, not MGM, faithful to the book, Maine, American film, ruining the symbolic pattern, Canada.]
	44:26- Audience #4 (female) asks another question. [INDEX: attempt to sell script in Canada.]
	44:30- Margaret Atwood responds to question. [INDEX: four or five screen plays which haven’t been made, Canadian, television play, CBC, screenplay for Edible Woman, Marie Clarie Blais, “Mad Shadows”, Canadian director and producer, film development corporations, commercial, novelists, publishing.]
	45:22- Wynne Francis asks a question about criticism. [INDEX: question, competition, speech on Wednesday at Loyola, comic tags, critical opponents, Koestler, Yogi [?], Komisars [?], literary critics, formalism, cultural and political awareness, ideal critic or ideal type of criticism.]
	45:51- Margaret Atwood responds. [INDEX: talents, criticism available to the reader, singer, dancer]
	46:08- Wynne Francis asks another question. [INDEX: combined talents, formal or cultural criticism]
	46:16- Audience Member #5 (male) asks question about body and knowledge. [INDEX: body of knowledge]
	46:20- Margaret Atwood answers question. [INDEX: body of knowledge, [Northrop] Frye, books, Yogi-ism [sp?], reading poetry, Komasar-isim [sp?], context of a poem]
	47:02- Margaret Atwood calls on audience member to ask question.
	47:08- Audience #6 (male) asks question about Quebec’s relation to Canada. [INDEX: Quebec, Canada]
	47:09- Margaret Atwood responds.
	47:11- Audience #6 (male) asks question about Quebecer’s relation to Canada. [INDEX: Quebecois, Canadian]
	47:15- Margaret Atwood responds. [INDEX: Quebecois, Marie Claire Blais, identity, Canadian, North-American, Western European culture, universalist]
	47:58- Audience #7 (female) asks question about the New Canadian Library Series. [INDEX: opinion of the New Canadian Library Series introductions]
	48:03- Margaret Atwood answers. [INDEX: quotation from the Joy of Cooking, puff pastry, critical apparatus, symbolic structuring, novel, comic]
	49:09- Audience #8 (female) asks question about irony. [INDEX: ironist, irony]
	49:22- Margaret Atwood answers question.
	49:31- Audience #8 (female) asks question about one line of Atwood’s poem. [INDEX: anger, ironic]
	49:41- Margaret Atwood answers question. [INDEX: double meaning, irony, definition of irony, character, modern literature]
	50:14- Audience #9 (female) asks question about a second Survival book. [INDEX: Survival 2.]
	50:16- Margaret Atwood answers question.
	50:22- Audience #9 (female) asks Atwood to elaborate.
	50:25- Margaret Atwood answers question. [INDEX: Survival 2, anthology, short pieces, permissions, expensive to produce, publish proposed table of contents, Ph.D. thesis, novel, second edition of Survival, paperback, General Publishing, Paper Jacks [?], New Canadian Library, McMillan’s, publishing industry in Canada, new introduction]
	52:30- Audience #10 (male) asks question about favourite poets. [INDEX: favourite poet]
	52:33- Margaret Atwood answers question. [INDEX: favourite poet, favourite poems, Margaret Avison, P.K. Page, A.M. Klein, Michael Ondaatje, Al Purdy, mid-Sixties, Doug [Gordon] Jones, Cornflake boxes]
	53:31- Margaret Atwood responds to inaudible question. [INDEX: little magazines, Adrienne Rich, January.]
	54:02- Audience #11 (female) asks question about Surfacing being autobiographical. [INDEX: Surfacing, autobiographical.]
	54:11- Margaret Atwood responds. [INDEX: vaguely, plot, fiction, setting, characters, invent part of characters, parents, paranoid schizophrenic, amnesia, Edible Woman, food, reader’s reactions, comic invention.]
	55:20- Audience #12 (female) asks question about characters. [INDEX: psychological background, characters.]
	55:25- Margaret Atwood responds to question. [INDEX: believable, plot.]
	55:46- Audience #13 (male) asks question about Edible Woman. [INDEX: comical invention, Edible Woman.]
	55:49- Margaret Atwood responds to question.
	55:51- Audience #13 (male) asks question about the definition of comedy. [INDEX: definition of comedy.]
	55:54- Margaret Atwood responds to question. [INDEX: technical, Edible Woman, anti-comedy, form, young couple, series of misadventures, marriage, ending.]
	56:24- Audience #14 (male) asks question about latest writing. [INDEX: novel being written]
	56:24- Margaret Atwood responds to question. [INDEX: superstition, work in progress.]
	56:41- Audience #15 (female) asks question about Edible Woman [INDEX: Robinson Davies book.]
	56:49-57:01- Margaret Atwood and audience try to figure out which book was written by Robinson Davies. [INDEX: Fifth Busienss, Nanticore, comedy.]
	57:02- Audience #15 (female) asks about selections in Survival. [INDEX: couple, town, married, Survival.]
	57:15- Margaret Atwood responds to question. [INDEX: humour, magic, next two chapters of Survival 2, Samuel Marchbanks, Fifth Business, Nanticore, magician figure, Canadian magicians, foreigners, Gwen[dolyn] MacEwen’s book No Man.]
	58:04- Audience #16 (female) asks question about No Man by Gwendolyn MacEwen. [INDEX: Novel.]
	58:04- Margaret Atwood responds to question. [INDEX: series of short stories, central story, pattern.]
	58:22- Audience #17 (male) asks question about selections made in Atwood’s reading [INDEX: poems read, best, most significant from the collection, selection choices.]
	58:45- Margaret Atwood responds to question. [INDEX: section #3, consists of 24 poems, too long, time constraints.]
	59:380 Wynne Francis thanks Margaret Atwood.
	59:46.85- END OF RECORDING.