“L'unica cosa che rende la vita sopportabile è non sapere che cosa verrà dopo.”
La mano sinistra delle tenebre
Ursula K. Le Guin:
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Ursula K. Le Guin frasi celebri
p. 156
da The Fisherwoman's Daughter; citato in Oriana Palusci, Da un mondo all'altro: Ursula LeGuin e la storia delle donne, introduzione a Il giorno del perdono, p. 5
La mano sinistra delle tenebre
p. 133
Ursula K. Le Guin Frasi e Citazioni
p. 159
Ursula K. Le Guin: Frasi in inglese
“When true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.”
"Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction" (1976)
Contesto: True myth may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero — really look — and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. “You must change your life,” he said. When true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
“If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
Hainish Cycle
Origine: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 8 “Another Way into Orgoreyn” (p. 101)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Hainish Cycle
Introduction (p. xii)
Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
Introduction to the story “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow” p. 166
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
Origine: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 5, "Bettering"
“To see a candle’s light, one must take it into a dark place.”
Origine: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Sparrowhawk)
“Dragonfly” (p. 199)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
“The Finder” (p. 85)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Hainish Cycle
and then, “What must I do?”
Section 5
Hainish Cycle, The Word for World Is Forest (1972)
Social Dreaming of the Frin in David G. Hartwell (ed.) Year's Best Fantasy 3, p. 172 (Originally published at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_%26_Science_Fiction October/November 2002)
Ursula K. Le Guin
libro
The Lathe of Heaven
Origine: The Lathe of Heaven (1971), Chapter 7 (Heather)
“The Field of Vision” pp. 228-229 (originally published in Galaxy, October 1973)
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
“Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
libro
The Lathe of Heaven
Origine: The Lathe of Heaven (1971), Chapter 8 (alien)
“Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.”
Origine: Earthsea Books, The Tombs of Atuan (1971), Chapter 11, "The Western Mountains"
“It’s not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.”
Origine: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 12, "Winter"
“If they come prying they can leave curious.”
Origine: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 7, "Mice"
“To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
libro
Four Ways to Forgiveness
"A Man of the People", p. 104; first published in Asimov's (1995)
Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
Origine: Earthsea Books, The Tombs of Atuan (1971), Chapter 7, "The Great Treasure" (Arha)
Foreward (p. xv)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Hainish Cycle
Origine: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 8 “Another Way into Orgoreyn” (p. 98)
