CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
I'm much sadder than seems reasonable on hearing about the death of an 88 year old writer.
“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.”
- The Dispossessed
I'm currently halfway through Left Hand of Darkness. Sad news.
EDIT: Going to leave this here: http://engl210-deykute.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/omelas.pdf
I was mystified and delighted to stumble on Le Guin during my teenage sci-fi phase and oddly saddened to hear of her demise.
'The creative adult is the child that survived.'
Yes, I had a similar experience. A real loss. Her writing lives on.
Excellent writer. Wizard of Earthsea good mixture of a fantastical world which was logical and consistent.
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.
Ursula both weird and kindly? What's not to like?
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.
both weird and kindly
CCE mission statement.
@IWRATS Nice tribute from Atwood, and fitting it should come from her.
both weird and kindly
CCE mission statement.
Sister motto to "an experiment"?
Useful and entertaining, weird and kindly.
There's a gravestone to aspire to.
i was always awaiting the dispossessed to be filmed as a motion picture
maybe it was and i don't know, or maybe she kept the rights to it?
There's a great 20 questions from the TLS to Ursula Le Guin here:-
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/twenty-questions-ursula-le-guin/
Quick questions:
George or T. S.? Both, of course
Modernism or post-? Pre, post, whatever
Jane Austen or Charlotte Brontë? Oh come on. That’s like saying “Air or water?”
Camus or Sartre? Ni l’un ni l’autre
Proust or Joyce? Oh, Proust I guess, but frankly I’d hate having to reread either of them
Knausgaard or Ferrante? See above
Jacques Derrida or Judith Butler? Plea of ignorance
Hamlet or A Midsummer Night’s Dream? “Air or water?” again
Bram Stoker or Mary Shelley? Shelley by six lengths
Tracey Emin or Jeff Koons? Who?
This is best:
What will your field look like twenty-five years from now?
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.
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