I've been re-reading some of Ursula Le Guin's books lately, and this bit from the opening of The Left Hand of Darkness struck me as both profound and deeply relevant to our tumultuous times: It is always the Year One here. Only the dating of every past and future year changes every New Year's Day, as one counts backwards or forwards from the unitary Now. So it was spring of the Year One in Erhenrang...
In the Eye of the Time Storm
In the Eye of the Time Storm
In the Eye of the Time Storm
I've been re-reading some of Ursula Le Guin's books lately, and this bit from the opening of The Left Hand of Darkness struck me as both profound and deeply relevant to our tumultuous times: It is always the Year One here. Only the dating of every past and future year changes every New Year's Day, as one counts backwards or forwards from the unitary Now. So it was spring of the Year One in Erhenrang...