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Abigail
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“Not a relationship of mutual aid in solidarity, an exploitative relationship; not organic, but mechanical. Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?”
The only consistency is inconsistency 🙃
— 23 hours, 14 min ago
The only consistency is inconsistency 🙃
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Abigail
is on page 139 of 400
“To make a thief, make an owner; to create a crime, create laws.”
— 22 hours, 22 min ago
Abigail
is on page 138 of 400
“They don’t believe in it anymore. They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison.”
— 22 hours, 24 min ago
Abigail
is on page 88 of 400
“He knew what a prison cell was like.”
Since when?? They played at it as kids, and he’d been locked in his bedroom on the ship, but prison is far away from either of those experiences 👀
— Oct 23, 2025 01:59PM
Since when?? They played at it as kids, and he’d been locked in his bedroom on the ship, but prison is far away from either of those experiences 👀
Abigail
is on page 84 of 400
“To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.”
— Oct 23, 2025 11:48AM
Abigail
is on page 81 of 400
“It does not matter. I thought you might be glad to be free of the unnecessary, that‘s all.”
— Oct 23, 2025 10:26AM
Abigail
is on page 38 of 400
This is fascinating. It would be just like a group of boys to go”What’s prison? … oh … we must make one immediately, who wants to be prisoner first?!” 🤣
— Oct 22, 2025 01:28PM
Abigail
is on page 28 of 400
“You can’t have things. They are to use and to share. If you can’t share then you can’t use it. What’s wrong with you?”
— Oct 22, 2025 11:50AM
Abigail
is on page 6 of 400
“To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, and lost the rest.”
— Oct 21, 2025 06:07PM
Abigail
is starting
I have never read Le Guin. I’ve never been a huge sci-fi person, but I have heard excellent things about this book and the philosophy in it. Onward!
— Oct 21, 2025 05:56PM
