it's Ursula Day! 💓
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”
and 50 more quotes.....
🌹 Ursula K. Le Guin, born on this day in 1929.
Oct 21, 2026, 3:27 PM@joyfulcarla I wanna read them all... What a treasure she was/is still. Was just thinking of her carrier bag theory today. Cheers to Le Guin in all her facets and modes of being.
Oct 21, 2026, 6:26 PMI've been rereading her books, the last couple years. I read them all when I was a teenager, and they shaped my life
Currently reading the early Hainish novels. It's interesting to see how she was writing about what comes after collapse, from the very beginning
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"And some of them objected strongly to his giving everyone the same mark. How could diligent students be distinguished from the dull ones? What was the good in working hard? If no competitive distinctions were to be made, one might as well do nothing.
'Well, of course,' Shevek said, troubled. 'If you do not want to do the work, you should not do it.'"
@esnyder GOOD ONE!! 🥹 😭 💓 gosh that book, i can read it every couple of years and still be surprised and always reminded how much it watered the seeds of my life and work! (i mean so many of her books & essays)
have you read Always Coming Home?
@joyfulcarla I bounced off of Always Coming Home a long time ago (25+ years?) and haven't tried again since. I should give it a go again!
Oct 22, 2026, 6:45 PM@esnyder @joyfulcarla @PapyrusBrigade
Always Coming Home is my deep favorite of hers. It's hard to find someone else who has even read it!
Emile, it contains a novel that is interspersed with chapters on material technology. You can just read the parts you want
I think the first time I read it I started out reading everything, and I eventually shifted to just reading the novel, because that was what spoke to me at the time. When I reread it last year, I read the whole thing in order. But you definitely don't have to do it that way!
And yes it seems so unique to me! But then when I started to read Moby Dick I realized....