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kennyc · 10-21-2013, 08:57 AM

"Truth is a matter of the imagination."
— Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle #4))

Her Birthday today. Read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas:

http://harelbarzilai.org/words/omelas.txt

and from a commencement address at Mills College:

"Because you are human beings you are going to meet failure. You are going to meet disappointment, injustice, betrayal, and irreparable loss. You will find you're weak where you thought yourself strong. You'll work for possessions and then find they possess you. You will find yourself — as I know you already have — in dark places, alone, and afraid.

"What I hope for you, for all my sisters and daughters, brothers and sons, is that you will be able to live there, in the dark place. To live in the place that our rationalizing culture of success denies, calling it a place of exile, uninhabitable, foreign."

10-21-2013, 08:57 AM	#2219
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,922 Karma: 119747553 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2 & PW, Onyx Boox Go6	"Truth is a matter of the imagination." — Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle #4)) Her Birthday today. Read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas: http://harelbarzilai.org/words/omelas.txt and from a commencement address at Mills College: "Because you are human beings you are going to meet failure. You are going to meet disappointment, injustice, betrayal, and irreparable loss. You will find you're weak where you thought yourself strong. You'll work for possessions and then find they possess you. You will find yourself — as I know you already have — in dark places, alone, and afraid. "What I hope for you, for all my sisters and daughters, brothers and sons, is that you will be able to live there, in the dark place. To live in the place that our rationalizing culture of success denies, calling it a place of exile, uninhabitable, foreign." Last edited by kennyc; 10-21-2013 at 09:31 AM.