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One detail that struck me in Le Guin's Dispossessed was when her anarchist-from-an-anarchist-society protagonist visits the neighbouring planet and discovers (a
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One detail that struck me in Le Guin's Dispossessed was when her anarchist-from-an-anarchist-society protagonist visits the neighbouring planet and discovers (a little to his dismay? or is it just puzzling?) that compared with his other physics colleagues there, he admires the franchise of the aristocrat the most.
- vinnyvichy 2y agoSinclair Lewis has a sort of parallel there-and-back-again story of the heroic scientist from the backwoods. (The erstwhile Mr. Dorothy Thompson) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767891 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767891
- 082349872349872 2y agoAn ostinato themes in Dispo is cycles vs lines; today I'm not so surprised to reencounter Ms Thompson*, but was pleasantly surprised by the following cycle: (1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_UYYPb-Gk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_UYYPb-Gk (1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcCK99wHrk0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcCK99wHrk0 (1978) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjXLzapT4-Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjXLzapT4-Q (1975) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE6fs26i4BA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE6fs26i4BA now time for me to listen to The Meters, and get some prehistory? (then again, a basic problem is once you hit New Orleans, everyone has influenced everyone) Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvuPuOrYMlg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvuPuOrYMlg * the "escalating terrorism" mentioned in her en.WP article probably refers to things like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing ?