![]() ![]() I like their most material aspect: the sound of them, heard in the mind or spoken by the voice. But I know that to me words are things, almost immaterial but actual and real things, and that I like them. ![]() But what resonates throughout No Time to Spare is Le Guin’s unwavering belief in the power of art literature in particular as the vehicle to imagine an alternative to our current reality. I don’t really know what it is I’ve done all my life, this wordworking. Le Guin has an overall rating of Positive based on 15 book reviews. The collected best of Ursula’s blog, No Time to Spare presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it: How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for. ![]() Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts-always adroit, often acerbic-on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. And that then by writing what I hear, I induce or compel readers to believe the voices are real too . . . No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters Audio CD March 6, 2018. ![]() You could say that I hear voices and believe the voices are real (which would mean I was schizophrenic, but the proverb test proves I’m not-I do, I do understand it, Doctor!). It’s imaginary, it takes place in the mind-my mind, and my reader’s. If what I do, what I make, is beautiful, it isn’t a physical beauty. And what my hands do with it in writing it down is not the same as what the hands of the weaver do with the yarn, or the potter’s hands with the clay, or the cabinetmaker’s with the wood. ![]()
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