is quite messy. so, craft work, then? oh, we didn t call it that, dear. that s a new fangled term. did you call it anything, or was itjust the stuff.? making stuff. and we had the full.the full run of the tool set, you know. that was very handy. a few years later, when you self published your first book. yes. a book of poetry, double persephone, um. a very limited run, and i think you made. you hand printed and set. typeset. yeah. it was a flatbed press, so you had to set each page, and the fonts were a bit limited, and we had to set the poem, run it through and then disassemble it and do the next one, and i did the cover with a lino block print. mmm. do you have one of these books? yes, but i should have kept more. that s a real serious margaret atwood rarity now, isn t it? your next choice for this cultural life is your brother s novels, which he wrote between the ages of seven and nine, you told us. so, what were these stories? he was very prolific. yeah. he even had, in the inside
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