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.
We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.
To change your LIFE _x000D_ you need to change your PRIORITIES.
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
Throughout the 20th century, we created wealth through vertically integrated corporations. Now, we create wealth through networks. We are at a turning point in human history, where the industrial age has finally run out of gas.
When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.
Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?
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