Little things
All aggregate into a day; it passes in a blur of choring and maintenance of balance. I find I don't want to reread Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and keep finding more Le Guin works in which to dive. One story revealed that religion resulted from the spread of an alien virus; I do like that idea, only there was no cure. Many of her stories consider themes of being an outsider, overcoming the alienation, and the ravages of the passage of time, changing the faces of people and places. She also has a strong current of conservation of everything running through her writing.
Off for a bite of sushi with beloved spouse.
Off for a bite of sushi with beloved spouse.
posted by isabelita at 12:53 PM
2 Comments:
On Gravity's Rainbow: Yes. I wanted to reread it this Spring, and found I didn't have the patience to finish past those first 100 pages of confusion. Too bad, really, because I remember liking it very much the first time.
On LeGuin: Yes! You're right, she does do the theme of alienation oh so well. What's the title of the religion/virus story?
imp: The Le Guin story is titled "The Field of Vision", and it's in her first collection of stories which is called "The Wind's Twelve Quarters".
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