These are rare books, so a lot of them are pretty obscure. >> If Atwood can see around corners, it's because her visions have historical precedent. They come rooted in actual events.At the Thomas Fischer Rear Book Library in Toronto at what is archived stacks of her research, that is the hundreds of news clippings that substantiate her plots. So, this is folder upon folder of your research >> for Handmaid's Tail. >> Oh, yeah.Lots of it. She writes by a strict rule. If it didn't happen somewhere at some time ...