Payback by Margaret Atwood

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Ok, this is not another of Atwood's dystopic fiction. Rather, it is a book on debts, its meaning and famous examples of debts. Peppered throughout the book are references on the historical facts of famous debts and creditors, the Christian take on debts. Of note and special mention is Faustus and Scrooge,  each an anti example of each other.

Millers, mills and miller's daughters mentioned in the Canterbury tales, Don Quixote and many other classics opens our eyes in how society sees industrialists as conniving thieves.

One thing that keeps coming up,"Without memory, there is no debt" and so a clean slate with outstanding debts is forgotten. Most uprising will include the burning of the accounts book so that debts need not be repaid.

Payback simply opens up into another world of classics. A good read!

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