"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. “A book that truly does matter.” - Houston Chronicle “The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up, searching for an available ear with which to share them.” - Melissa Febos, New York Times Book Review 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.
In the last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shined.
Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. On breakfast: “Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime.” On cultural perceptions of fantasy: “The direction of escape is toward freedom. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: “If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.” I like their most material aspect: the sound of them, heard in the mind or spoken by the voice.Ursula K. But I know that to me words are things, almost immaterial but actual and real things, and that I like them. I don’t really know what it is I’ve done all my life, this wordworking. And that then by writing what I hear, I induce or compel readers to believe the voices are real too . . . 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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