The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.
Interpretation
Exploring the unknown can lead to new and brave experiences.
Angela Carter's quote suggests that the things we cannot see or understand represent new territories full of potential and opportunities. By likening the invisible to an unexplored country, she emphasizes the importance of courage and curiosity in venturing into the unknown, which can lead to transformative experiences and insights in our lives.
In practice
Using this quote as part of a speech on embracing change and uncertainty.
She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written β heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.
Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change lives.
You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.
Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.
Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.
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