Cured?
I asked if these two psychopaths could not be cured. "Cured?" Goss said. "Would you cure a singer of his voice?"
-from Ursula K. LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness
posted by SkiSickness at 6:07 AM
22 August 2007
-from Ursula K. LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness
3 Comments:
'Nudder one I like:
The unknown, the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
You should post on cascadepoet if you want to.
I've read some of ursula's books. I remember some crazy sci-fi/fantasy type stuff. I need to go check them out again.
Some I like:
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
Frank Herbert
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
Frank Herbert
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
Frank Herbert
More Le Guin from _A Wizard of Earthsea_
And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do...
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