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    R.I.P. Ursula Le Guin

    One of the very best.
    You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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    Sad. One of Oregon's finest.

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    Rest in peace!

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    "The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
    Ursula K. Le Guin
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    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    May she fly golden on the other wind
    Voices mysterious far and near,
    Sound of the wind and sound of the sea,
    Are calling and whispering in my ear,
    Whifflingpin! Why stayest thou here?

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    I have only read one of her books, The Left Hand of Darkness, but I was impressed. I thought the science was pretty good; it was not just fantasy. It was quite political. I liked the mythology and culture she invented for inhabitants of her Winter planet. iirc each chapter would be prefixed by a mythological or religious tale.
    According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
    Charles Dickens, by George Orwell

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