a fisherman of the inland sea
on monday sei531 accidentally left a copy of ursula k le guin's 'a fisherman of the inland sea' here. i'm still a little way off getting to a post office to send it on, and in the meantime have read it =smile= it has proved to be most pleasant company =smile=
i've only read one other of her books that i can recall, and that was a copy of 'the compass rose' that parallelgirl left with me... and that queerpup currently has (have you read the story with the rat - i think it was - in it yet?). i liked that, and its stories - a lot about communication, to my mind, and iirc. and maybe about perspecitve too. i liked the way she uses words, language... she has quite a poetic/lyrical way, i think...
and i liked that again this time around... and the stories she told... which were a lot about stories... and the internal self, and how that connects with the external world and others, and relationships, and truth and reality... and... =smile= lots of things =smile= i really liked the layers of story that built up.
it was about half way through the book that the stories really caught me up. and on thursday morning i found myself both delighting in one of them, and being struck quite powerfully by it - it's words, it's images, it's content. it was/is very fine =smile=
and there were a couple of things that caught in my brain/mind at the time. as likely because of where my head was at the time and/or my expereince of life to date, as anything else (which i think is always true). and as i look at them again, they still turn my thoughts. i think they are ideas that i haven't settled into any conclusion about - that simply leave me pondering (ponderous?).
"A chain of command is easy to describe, a network of response isn't. To those who live by mutual empowerment, "thick" description, complex and open-ended, is normal and comprehensible, but to those whose only model is hierarchic control, such description seems a muddle, a mess, along with what it describes"
and
""Staking everything on it," the next voice took up the story, "because nothing works except what we give our souls to, nothing's safe except what we put at risk""
i would like to read more of what she has written.
i've only read one other of her books that i can recall, and that was a copy of 'the compass rose' that parallelgirl left with me... and that queerpup currently has (have you read the story with the rat - i think it was - in it yet?). i liked that, and its stories - a lot about communication, to my mind, and iirc. and maybe about perspecitve too. i liked the way she uses words, language... she has quite a poetic/lyrical way, i think...
and i liked that again this time around... and the stories she told... which were a lot about stories... and the internal self, and how that connects with the external world and others, and relationships, and truth and reality... and... =smile= lots of things =smile= i really liked the layers of story that built up.
it was about half way through the book that the stories really caught me up. and on thursday morning i found myself both delighting in one of them, and being struck quite powerfully by it - it's words, it's images, it's content. it was/is very fine =smile=
and there were a couple of things that caught in my brain/mind at the time. as likely because of where my head was at the time and/or my expereince of life to date, as anything else (which i think is always true). and as i look at them again, they still turn my thoughts. i think they are ideas that i haven't settled into any conclusion about - that simply leave me pondering (ponderous?).
"A chain of command is easy to describe, a network of response isn't. To those who live by mutual empowerment, "thick" description, complex and open-ended, is normal and comprehensible, but to those whose only model is hierarchic control, such description seems a muddle, a mess, along with what it describes"
and
""Staking everything on it," the next voice took up the story, "because nothing works except what we give our souls to, nothing's safe except what we put at risk""
i would like to read more of what she has written.