My 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

Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on.

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A 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.

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Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive

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I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.

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To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

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And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

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A 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.

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Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive

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I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

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If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,

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A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

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Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on.

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Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

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I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.

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The machine conceals the machinations.

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As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do...

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Yes. There's really only one question that can be answered, Genry, and we already know the answer....The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

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