A few Dispo characters: Atro (aristocrat physicist, high [Urras]) Oiie (capitalist physicist, mid [Urras]) Shevek (anarchist physicist, mid [Anarres])

A few Dispo characters: Atro (aristocrat physicist, high [Urras]) Oiie (capitalist physicist, mid [Urras]) Shevek (anarchist physicist, mid [Anarres]) yes, the anarchists are equal, ...but some are more equal than others and a few quotes, from when Shevek travels from Anarres to visit the anarchists' enemies: the propertarians on Urras: > [The battle for Shevek's theory] had been the high point of Atro’s life. He would not have fought for less than the truth, but it was the fighting he had loved, better than the truth. > Atro could trace his genealogy back for eleven hundred years, through generals, princes, great landowners. The family still owned an estate of ... the most rural region of A-Io. He had ... archaisms to which he clung with pride. Wealth impressed him not at all, and he referred to the entire government of his country as “demagogues ...” His respect was not to be bought. Yet he gave it, freely, to any fool with what he called “the right name.” In some ways he was totally incomprehensible to Shevek—an enigma: the aristocrat. And yet his genuine contempt for both money and power made Shevek feel closer to him than to anyone else he had met on Urras. > Oiie was a changed man at home. The secretive look left his face, and he did not drawl when he spoke. ... He behaved to [his wife] and to his children very much as an Anarresti might. In fact, at home, he suddenly appeared as a simple, brotherly kind of man, a free man.