The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.
They feel anger, outrage, impotence, despite all the explanations. They would like to do something for the child. But.
If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea.
A fine rain fell without sound on the oak-leaves and on the narrow pathways to the Lodge and the river. Only if you listened intently could you hear the rain, too multitudinous a music for one mind to grasp, a single endless chord played on the entire forest.
His authority was in fact immense; but he never stood on it. He sat down on it, comfortably, and invited you to sit down with him.
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
Yet I have an idea of what you should do. It is a hard thing to say to you.” Ged’s silence demanded truth, and Ogion said at last, “You must turn around.” “Turn around?” “If you go ahead, if you keep running, wherever you run you will meet danger and evil, for it drives you, it chooses the way you go. You must choose. You must seek what seeks you. You must hunt the hunter.” Ged said nothing.
He mentally perceived words as having various sizes, densities, depths; words were dark stars, some small and dull and solid, some immense, complex, subtle, with a powerful gravity-field that attracted infinite meanings to them. Freedom was the biggest of the dark stars.
There is a hole in the world, and the light is running out of it.
Games and stories are imitations of life, ways of playing at life, sometimes ways of learning how to live. Some of the rules may appear both cruel and arbitrary. But if you want to play the game, or live the life, you have to follow them.
La mayor parte de las cosas envejecen y mueren con el paso de los siglos. Son muy pocas las cosas preciosas que siguen siendo preciosas, o las historias que se siguen contando.
I don’t know what ‘human nature’ is. Maybe leaving descriptions of what we wipe out is part of human nature – Is it much pleasanter for an ecologist, really?
Most animals stayed in the wilderness with Coyote. Not the ants, though. They wanted to make war with the humans, and they did, and they’re still at it.
In fact it was, the endless warm drizzle of spring – the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible to melting it.
What I know is this, I am going to love people. They will never know it. But I am going to be a great lover. I know how. I have practiced.
To describe society since the mid twentieth century – global, multilingual, infinitely interlinked – we need the global, intuitional language of fantasy.
There was no answer. There had never been an answer.
I think that things happen in nature that we don’t altogether understand, and to call them ghosts is to make sure we will not understand. The best we can do is not to put a name to them, but to listen.
You don’t see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?” “No – ” “To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.
Denial is an effective weapon in the hands of fear.