I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?
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@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWe're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialAnd I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialDo you know how to read?'
'No. It is one of the black arts.'
He nodded. 'But a useful one,' he said.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe king was pregnant.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo oppose something is to maintain it.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialA person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWe are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo oppose something is to maintain it.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWhile we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
@from1968.bsky.social* A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), first edition, Parnassus Press, Berkeley, California, 1968
Cover art by Ruth Robbins
#1968 #from1968 #RuthRobbins #UrsulaLeGuin #UrsulaKLeGuin #Earthsea #AWizardOfEarthsea
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTime is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...]
@commiepoetartist.bsky.socialMy 1st informal essay in my AnComm Ursula K. Le Guin Re-readathon series is finally complete and up on #Substack! I'm super proud of how this one turned out. Please enjoy and share if you'd like! #ursulakleguin #leguin #medialiteracy #medialit #literaryessay #anarchism #communism #revolution #omelas
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialLike all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialA rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.