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Light Verse: short and shocking 😂

The best message ever sent and receiver!

The hunter’s eyes have already been blinded by the prey he intends to catch.

All of these emotions—and other emotions, such as fear, sorrow, happiness, and appreciation of beauty—were things that the Trisolaran civilization strove to avoid and eliminate. Such emotions caused the individual and society to be weak spiritually and did not help with survival in the harsh environment of this world. The mental states that Trisolarans needed were calmness and numbness.

I started the fire, but I couldn’t control how it burnt.

Desperation turned me from a pacifist into an extremist.

Does it represent the yearning for order, or the surrender to chaos?

Lackadaisical: lacking enthusiasm and determination.


Lazy implies the deliberate avoidance of work in order to spare oneself effort. Lackadaisical implies lack of purpose. The lazy person has a purpose. The lackadaisical person is content to let things happen.

Anything sufficiently weird must be fishy.

The more transparent something was, the more mysterious it seemed.

But she was a woman. A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.

Shooter and farmer

Edgar Allan Poe had used the phrase “the imp of the perverse” to describe the temptation to do the wrong thing simply because you could

I wish this didn’t affect me so deeply. Would that we could choose the things that trouble us, but we can’t.

Let me always be inquisitive, but never be suspicious.

Let me always be inquisitive, but never be suspicious.

The only sane response would be despair

Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.

Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.

That the social conscience completely dominates the individual conscience, instead of striking a balance with it.

How do introverts live in Anarres?

Olie asked him if he had seen the work on relativity theory by an alien physicist, Ainsetain of Terra. 😂

The singular forms of possessive pronoun in Pravic were used mostly for emphasis; idiom avoided them. Little children might say “my mother”, but very soon they learned to say “the mother”. Love how Le Guin create and describe the Odonian people.

All women are propertarians.