well, re ambiguity, I don't think it has to be just one thing, anarchist critique or more liberal anticommunism. in a story that's nodding to Orwell especially (not sure what else to make of "George Orr")
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Replying to @nberlat @GiffordJames and
It might be, or she might have really liked the sound. Keep repeating it it really rings into a "jorjorjor" sound
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Replying to @zhinxy_vs_media @nberlat and
I'm not kidding! She might have found herself muttering "george george george" at some point and gone "I'm gonna name somebody jorjorjor"
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Replying to @zhinxy_vs_media @nberlat and
If you read her intro in WIND'S TWELVE QUARTERS about how Omelas came to be, that's definitely a possibility. ("[… People ask me] 'Where do you get your ideas from, Ms. Le Guin?' From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?")
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Replying to @iridienne @nberlat and
Also, I mean "OR" and he's a channel for different possibilities, this OR that.
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Replying to @zhinxy_vs_media @iridienne and
Or even "I'll name him something that sounds kinda like George Orwell. That oughta hold the little S.O.B's! "
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Replying to @zhinxy_vs_media @nberlat and
Of all the authors i can think of, Le Guin and Delany are the two who are the least "authorial" in their voices -- at least in the places where "author" is related to "authoritarian". Neither one of them is interested in "telling people what to think".
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Replying to @iridienne @zhinxy_vs_media and
It's funny, because (as has been brought up in this conversation) they had a kind of fraught and combative relationship with each other's work! But they are a lot, a LOT, alike.
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Replying to @iridienne @zhinxy_vs_media and
Le Guin talks about how much she hates parables in her intro to "The Rock that Changed Things". Incidentally,
@nberlat, that story is maybe a counterpoint to your thesis about how she doesn't like revolutionary violence. (I mean, that one and a LOT of her other work...)1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @iridienne @zhinxy_vs_media and
But Le Guin is never interested in talking about general cases; i don't think she believed such a thing existed.
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Part of what's so horrifying about The Lathe of Heaven is Haber just casually using his powers to Ctrl+A the entire population of Earth and apply an algorithmic change to them Thanos-style, without pausing even for a second to think about edge and corner cases
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
Just "Race is bad, Ctrl+F 'race', Delete"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zhinxy_vs_media and
Yeah, and that's exactly it -- for Le Guin that approach cannot help but be impossibly destructive.
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