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Prerna
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There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her.
— Jul 15, 2021 07:00AM
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Prerna
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For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward.
— Jul 18, 2021 01:53AM
Prerna
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No, brother, I’m sane. What drives people crazy is trying to live outside reality. Reality is terrible. It can kill you. Given time, it certainly will kill you. The reality is pain—you said that! But it’s the lies, the evasions of reality, that drive you crazy. It’s the lies that make you want to kill yourself.
— Jul 14, 2021 08:45AM
Prerna
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And yet, I wonder if it isn’t all a misunderstanding—this grasping after happiness, this fear of pain. . . . If instead of fearing it and running from it, one could . . . get through it, go beyond it There is something beyond it. It’s the self that suffers, and there’s a place where the self—ceases.
Back to Le Guin, always. And my Boy Shevek is the best of all her characters! Along with Estraven from TLHOD.
— Jul 11, 2021 03:41AM
Back to Le Guin, always. And my Boy Shevek is the best of all her characters! Along with Estraven from TLHOD.
