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Posted: 26 Jan 2018


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Dreamtime3.2
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue; never mind the sixpence in my shoe –for one thing, they don’t make them anymore. This is for Ursula K. Le Guin, who died peacefully in her bed a few days ago, aged 88, after a long life of dreaming and dreaming damned well. Ah, yes, the girl could dream like nobody’s business. So here is my tribute wot contains all the four ingredients for an alchemical marriage that happened a while back, when I was young and foolish and good Sci-Fi-starved. Borges said once that nobody likes owing anything to their contemporaries. This is, if it is at all, rubbish. We all owe lots of things to lots of people so it’s a waste of time liking the fact or not. Personally I rather owe to of my age group (or near-age group) that to some centuries old geezer whose ideas were dodgy to begin with but yet linger, and linger, and liiiiiiinger (oy vey!), instead of laying quietly in the intellectual elephant’s graveyard where they belong. In fact, for this modest loving homage, I’ve borrowed from myself, look, you! Bye bye, Ursy. Fare thee well, give my regards to the sub-atomic particles and see you soon(ish).

buonacoppi, Risa Profana, * ઇઉ *, ╰☆☆June☆☆╮ and 3 other people have particularly liked this photo


14 comments - The latest ones
 Dutt Changgle
Dutt Changgle
"...Walk Away From Omelas" and "Left Hand of Darkness" were indeed awesomenesses.
6 years ago.
dolores666 club has replied to Dutt Changgle
Haven't read "Walk Away..." but re-read "Left Hand..." just last year. Bowled me over all over again. Currently reading "The Lathe of Heaven". She was well groovy, she was.
6 years ago.
 William Sutherland
William Sutherland club
Exceptional work!

Admired in:
www.ipernity.com/group/tolerance
6 years ago.
dolores666 club has replied to William Sutherland club
Thankyou thankyoy, William!
6 years ago.
 dolores666
dolores666 club
And thank you Berny.
6 years ago.
 ╰☆☆June☆☆╮
╰☆☆June☆☆╮ club
Lovely tribute ;-)

Thank you for sharing your exceptional creation with us,
here in ✴ Digital Dreams ✴
6 years ago.
 * ઇઉ *
* ઇઉ * club
Individual tribute, wonderful work!
6 years ago.
dolores666 club has replied to * ઇઉ * club
Thanks dear! Re-reading some of her stuff. She's as fesh as ever.☺
And thanks for all the invitations!
6 years ago.
 Léopold
Léopold club
Rêver ........
en ......
bleu est un idéal quotidien que j'ai comme but !
6 years ago.
dolores666 club has replied to Léopold club
Un but magnifique, Leopold. And thanks for the invitations to groups.☺
6 years ago.
 Steve Bucknell
Steve Bucknell club
It’s many many years since I read The Dispossessed but I loved it then. She was writing reviews in the TLS until very recently, and was always wise and witty and fair. She broke new ground. I’ll read her again.

Lovely blue graceful thing, though the moon makes me woozy.
6 years ago.
dolores666 club has replied to Steve Bucknell club
My Moon makes you woozy? You sensitive soul, you...:-)
Yes, she was a lovely woman. Very tough but very loving, too. I love her to bits. Just finished reading (first time around) The Lathe of Heaven, which, coincidentally (?) is about dreams.
And many thanks for the invites, don Esteban. XX
6 years ago.
 raingirl
raingirl club
Ms. Le Guin lived in my town and worked with a close friend of mine, photographer Roger Dorband, on a couple of books [www.ursulakleguin.com/Index-OutHere.html]. I got to meet her once in her home when they were working on their book on Thurman Street - where she lived. She was a delightful person. And though her writing was not to my taste, I appreciate her abilities and honor how much she was to so many people. This is a beautiful tribute you've made.
6 years ago.
dolores666 club has replied to raingirl club
Thank again, raingirl.
I read an interview recently and yes, she sounded like a kind, no-nonsense, sharp and very funny woman. Her fiction bowled me over years ago and still does now. She broke ground, she did.
6 years ago.

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