The Paraclete and “Book of Martha” narratives were ultimately versions of the dream of “fixing” of the human species that had driven (and stymied) the Parables books: “On the one hand,” she writes in her journal, “I want to write fix-the-world scenario. I seem to need to write them. The fact that I don’t believe in them–don’t believe humanity is fixable–does create a problem

The Paraclete and “Book of Martha” narratives were ultimately versions of the dream of “fixing” of the human species that had driven (and stymied) the Parables books: “On the one hand,” she writes in her journal, “I want to write fix-the-world scenario. I seem to need to write them. The fact that I don’t believe in them–don’t believe humanity is fixable–does create a problem

– Gerry Canavan –

Octavia E. Butler

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