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“We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, from “Nine Lives”, in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters
Explain a movie plot badly but actually it's a book:
Cishet man tries to cope with the existence of transgender people.
It’s an Ursula k le Guin free your mind from the idea of deserving kind of day
“After all, [the world] is on my side. That is, I’m a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground’s walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
times, places, and practices that I want to learn from to imagine a hopeful future for humanity 🍃
the three sisters (squash, beans, maize) stock photo - alamy // anecdote by Ira Byock about Margaret Mead // art by Amanda Key // always coming home by Ursula K. Le Guin // Yup'ik basket weaver Lucille Westlock photographed by John Rowley // the left hand of darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin // photo by Jacob Klassen // the carrier bag theory of fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin // article in national geographic // the dawn of everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow // braiding sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer // the birchbark house by Louise Erdrich // photo by John Noltner
I'm looking for more content and book recs in this vein, so please send them my way!
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Catwings!
I don't know where my first one of these went, but I loved these ones! The books are about a bunch of cats who grow wings. They go through trials and tribulations because they need to find a safe place to live without being made into unwilling lab subjects. The illustrations are great too
Also yes they are by THAT Ursula K Le Guin.
Unfortunate note: despite my love for these books, I want to go on the record as one of those people who begs pet owners to keep their cats indoors. Thank you.
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel – or have done and thought and felt; or might do and think and feel – is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel – or have done and thought and felt; or might do and think and feel – is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
1969 cover art by Tim White for ‘The Left Hand of Darkness,’ by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand Of Darkness (1981) (Tim White)
