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Emma Southon @emmasouthon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How was Ursula le Guin just always right about everything (from Paradises Lost)

Chi-Ans called V-Dichew, Hsing was overwhelmed and disappointed. V-Dichew was exciting and tremendously complicated, yet thin. It was superficial. It was
programs.
There were infinite things in it, but one stupid real thing, her old toothbrush, had more being in it than all the swarming rush of objects and sensations in City or Jungle or Countryside. In Countryside, she was always aware that although there was nothing overhead but the blue air, and she was walking along on grass-stuff that carpeted the uneven deck for impossible distances rising up into impossible shapes (hills), and that the noises in her ears were air moving fast (wind) and a kind of high yit-yit sound sometimes (birds), and that those things on all fours way off on the winds, no, on the hills, were animals (cattle), all the same, all the time, she knew she was sitting in a chair in School Two V-Lab with some junk attached to her body, and her body refused to be fooled, insisting that no matter how strange and amazing and educational and important and historical V-Dichew was, it was a fake.
Dreams could also be convincing, beautiful, frightening, important. But she didn't want to live in dreams. She wanted to be awake in her body touching true cloth, true metal, true skin.

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Nate @natusm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

yeah, it's getting annoying now

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Before her death in 2018, she was my favourite living author & had been for nearly 30 years. I disagreed (strongly) with two of her rsther negative book reviews (Susanna Clarke & Philip Pullman), but that was about it. As you said, she was almost always right. Paradises Lost is an amazing story!

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bEA @vestigialhe.art · 31/08/2026

do you need a new toothbrush?

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