http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: OT: Ursula K. Le Guin en Sun, 31 May 2026 15:33:03 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18545#post-273598 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 11:37:56 +0000 unhurt 273598@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This is best:</p> <p><strong>What will your field look like twenty-five years from now?</strong></p> <p><em>My field? What is my field, I wonder. My favourite field is the one below the barn at the old ranch in California. I hope in twenty-five years it looks just the way it does now, all wild oats and chicory and foxtail and voles and jackrabbits and quail.<br /> </em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18545#post-273597 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 11:32:46 +0000 Rosie 273597@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's a great 20 questions from the TLS to Ursula Le Guin here:-</p> <p><a href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/twenty-questions-ursula-le-guin/" rel="nofollow">https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/twenty-questions-ursula-le-guin/</a></p> <p>Quick questions:</p> <p><strong>George or T. S.? </strong>Both, of course</p> <p><strong>Modernism or post-?</strong> Pre, post, whatever</p> <p><strong>Jane Austen or Charlotte Brontë?</strong> Oh come on. That’s like saying “Air or water?”</p> <p><strong>Camus or Sartre?</strong> Ni l’un ni l’autre</p> <p><strong>Proust or Joyce?</strong> Oh, Proust I guess, but frankly I’d hate having to reread either of them</p> <p><strong>Knausgaard or Ferrante?</strong> See above</p> <p><strong>Jacques Derrida or Judith Butler?</strong> Plea of ignorance</p> <p><strong>Hamlet or A Midsummer Night’s Dream?</strong> “Air or water?” again</p> <p><strong>Bram Stoker or Mary Shelley?</strong> Shelley by six lengths</p> <p><strong>Tracey Emin or Jeff Koons?</strong> Who? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18545#post-273574 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:59:07 +0000 minus six 273574@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>i was always awaiting <em>the dispossessed</em> to be filmed as a motion picture</p> <p>maybe it was and i don't know, or maybe she kept the rights to it? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18545#post-273570 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:42:31 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273570@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Useful and entertaining, weird and kindly.<br /> </em></p> <p>There's a gravestone to aspire to. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18545#post-273562 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:10:28 +0000 unhurt 273562@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>both weird and kindly</p> <p>CCE mission statement.</em> </p> <p>Sister motto to "an experiment"? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18545#post-273518 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:15:49 +0000 Rosie 273518@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IWRATS Nice tribute from Atwood, and fitting it should come from her. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18545#post-273509 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 14:57:55 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273509@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/24/ursula-k-le-guin-margaret-atwood-tribute" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/24/ursula-k-le-guin-margaret-atwood-tribute</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18545#post-273501 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 14:06:36 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273501@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>both weird and kindly</em></p> <p>CCE mission statement. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18545#post-273499 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 14:03:32 +0000 Colonies_Chris 273499@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A selection of her short stories are available in 2 volumes (The Unreal and the Real), which I happened to read last year. I found every one of them bending my thoughts in unexpected directions, as well as warm and compassionate. A great loss. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18545#post-273493 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 13:24:37 +0000 gembo 273493@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ursula both weird and kindly? What's not to like? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18545#post-273487 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 12:58:53 +0000 fimm 273487@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Another fan here. I gave my nieces the 3 original Earthsea books for Christmas. I would like to read the other Earthsea books that she wrote more recently; but for now I may go and reread one of the books that I already have. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18545#post-273484 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 12:32:46 +0000 Rosie 273484@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Excellent writer. Wizard of Earthsea good mixture of a fantastical world which was logical and consistent. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18545#post-273482 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 12:09:23 +0000 crowriver 273482@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, I had a similar experience. A real loss. Her writing lives on. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18545#post-273480 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 11:42:37 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273480@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was mystified and delighted to stumble on Le Guin during my teenage sci-fi phase and oddly saddened to hear of her demise. </p> <p>'The creative adult is the child that survived.' </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18545#post-273479 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 11:35:47 +0000 Frenchy 273479@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm currently halfway through <em>Left Hand of Darkness</em>. Sad news.</p> <p>EDIT: Going to leave this here: <a href="http://engl210-deykute.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/omelas.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://engl210-deykute.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/omelas.pdf</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18545#post-273478 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 11:30:42 +0000 unhurt 273478@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm much sadder than seems reasonable on hearing about the death of an 88 year old writer. </p> <p>“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.”<br /> - The Dispossessed </p>