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#The Dispossessed
swdefcult · 2 days
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freedom-in-truth · 4 months
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"Palestine never existed--"
It did, though.
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Even basic Hollywood films did accurate world maps with Palestine.
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From the river to the sea
Palestine will be free 🇵🇸
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brechtian · 2 years
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ursula k le guin said sci fi/fantasy does not have to be about giant wars or battles of good and evil or galactic disaster; it is best served as a lens through which to examine what is actually intrinsic to the human condition and what, once removed a few layers from our own perceptions & assumptions, begins to fall apart. and she was correct.
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derangedrhythms · 1 year
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—I suppose it was lust / But it was holy and awful.
John Berryman, The Dispossessed: The Nervous Songs; from ‘Young Woman’s Song’
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alicearmageddon · 4 months
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"For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think."
-Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossesed
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more like ursula slay le guin
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indescriptequilibrium · 5 months
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Ursula K. Le Guin — The Dispossessed
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grendelsmilf · 1 year
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shevek in the dispossessed
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hwayjino · 11 months
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different language editions of the dispossessed by ursula k. le guin
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quotespile · 1 month
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It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed.
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
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msvhs · 5 months
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There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared; an adult could not look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it generated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
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charliejaneanders · 9 months
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The American Writers Museum did a podcast episode about Ursula K. Le Guin, and I was so honored to be part of it. (Along with her son, Theo Downes-Le Guin.) This was an amazing conversation about a writer who means so much to me.
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pulchrasilva · 8 months
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Le guin is truly so good at making me uncomfortable with like. Reality and humanity. This is not escapism this is undeniably the real world. She makes you face that fact head on
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littlenimart · 2 months
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just finished up Ursula K Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. the way she describes the Annaresti is so intriguingly just-slightly-alien and my imagination conjured this slightly muppet- esque image of Shevek early in reading that it refused to let go of.
I’ve read a few books recently that have me compelled to illustrate them a bit- I just finished TP’s The Monstrous Regiment and am of course dying to draw them, and on the Le Guin subject I want to pick back up my sketches from when I read TLHOD back in 2021
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"For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think."
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed 
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