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Under its f-ing eye

This title refers of course to the brilliant novel from Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale , which was recently adapted into a television series. It describes a futuristic society (but not that futuristic...) where the new masters of the land are hard core puritans and where women deemed as "lost" become surrogate mothers. I won't go into that much because I believe many people know the story, or if they don't, they should read the book. Shall I remind people what a book is? A good one? It's a work that has been created for quite a long time and that we, the public, read in a short-ish amount of time, a bit like a painting, hours and hours of work from the painter, that is seen and judged, and looked at for a few seconds, before we move on to another painting. I'd like to remind people that because perhaps fewer and fewer people read books, fewer and fewer people get lost in front of a painting admiring it. The internet is a great place, but it is pro