He looks a lot like caricatures of activists, and there are no activists in this world to compare him to. So it seems reasonable to wonder what that says re her ideas about changing society.
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Replying to @nberlat @zhinxy_vs_media and
Like, our dreams are limited, bu my the limits have meaning, and here and in omegas part of the impossible dream is apparently that ppl like MLK exist.
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Replying to @nberlat @zhinxy_vs_media and
Haber's first big dream literally eliminates MLK from history I mean, this is extremely explicit in the story It's Heather's whole backstory -- her mom and dad met organizing for SNCC, her parents got together because of her white dad's efforts at performative allyship
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zhinxy_vs_media and
Does it? Or is MLK even there? It certainly seems like it’s Le Guin who erases him first...
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Replying to @nberlat @zhinxy_vs_media and
SNCC would not have existed if not for the civil rights movement And SNCC is central to Heather's backstory, and Heather is a major character
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Replying to @nberlat @arthur_affect and
If the activist efforts at change are a failure which shape Heather, and she’s gobsmacked by Orr’s quiet strength, and he rescues her from her anger through dreaming her as his wife...
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Replying to @zhinxy_vs_media @arthur_affect and
Yep. The book says Heather as wife is softer and more at peace with herself.
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Again, the positive ending of the book wipes out Gray Heather and replaces her with Original Heather, who is the real Heather that George actually fell in love with
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Replying to @GiffordJames @arthur_affect and
please don't get me started I need to make lunch for my family!!!
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