Status Updates From The Dispossessed

The great physicist was misled by a disaffected group, for a while. Intellectuals are always being led astray, because they think about irrelevant things like time and space and reality, things that have nothing to do with real life, so they are easily fooled by wicked deviationists.

Things change, change. You cannot have anything…. And least of all can you have the present—unless you accept with it the past and the future. Not only the past but also the future, not only the future but also the past! Because they are real: only their reality makes the present real. You will not achieve or even understand Urras unless you accept the reality, the enduring reality, of Anarres.

“But I’m luckier. A scientist can pretend that his work isn’t himself, it’s merely the impersonal Truth. An artist can’t hide behind the Truth. He can’t hide anywhere.”

...this instant the difference between this planet and that one, between Urras and Anarres, was no more significant to him than the difference between two grains of sand on the shore of the sea. There were no more abysses, no more walls.

Another insane read so far that has for real inspired me to make art; Ursula I <3 u tremendously