Title:: [[Atonement]] Authors:: [[Ian McEwan]] Tags:: #fiction #historicalfiction #metafiction Read:: [[2022-10-10]] ## Editions - Edition:: Anchor Books, 2003 - Original Copyright:: 2001 - Pages:: 351 ## Annotations Page 107:  ‘The word: she tried to prevent it sounding in her thoughts, and yet it danced through them obscenely, a typological demon, juggling vague, insinuating anagrams — an uncle and a nut, the Latin for next, an Old English king attempting to turn back the tide…the smallest pig in the litter, the hounds pursuing the fox, the flat-bottomed boats on the Cam by Grantchester meadow. Naturally, she had never heard the word spoken, or seen it in print, or come across it in asterisks…The smooth-hollowed, partly enclosed forms of its first three letters were clear as a set of anatomical drawings. Three figures huddling at the foot of the cross.” 🤯