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"His obtuseness is ignorance. His arrogance is ignorance. He is ignorant of us: we of him. He is infinitely a stranger, and I a fool, to let my shadow cross the light of the hope he brings us. I keep my mortal vanity down. I keep out of his way: for clearly that is what he wants. He is right. An exiled Karhidish traitor is no credit to his cause."
— Nov 01, 2025 03:09PM
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Aimée Olivia Ewington
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"I believe he considers crying either evil or shameful. Even when he was very ill and weak, the first days of our escape, he hid his face from me when he wept. Reasons personal, racial, social, sexual— how can I guess why Ai must not weep? Yet his name is a cry of pain."
— Nov 01, 2025 03:07PM
Aimée Olivia Ewington
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« I was sharply aware of him: of his silence; of his dark averted face. And it crossed my mind, though I dismissed the idea as baseless, that I had not come to Mishnory to eat roast blackfish with the Commensals of my own free will; nor had they brought me here. He had. »
Ugh I will always be in love with Le Guin’s writing 🥰
— Oct 05, 2025 02:52PM
Ugh I will always be in love with Le Guin’s writing 🥰
