News at Eleven: My area was the Victorian novel,

and I had to do a lot of Americana at Harvard. The 19th-century novel is very driven by money: If you peel off the very sentimental characters and get to the skeleton, it's a money skeleton. It's 'Who's paying for Pip's education?'" You don't notice it much when you're young, because you're more interested in the psychosexual. [--Margaret Atwood]

from The Globe and Mail: Margaret Atwood's old-fashioned approach to debt

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