i have to take a moment to fangirl: LeGuin is masterly. in Chapter 6, One Way into Orgoreyn, she has managed to shift me from an Estraven-skeptic to an Estraven believer. the subtle changes in language, cadence, and diction separate us from the narrative voice of Genly Ai, but not such a shift that it takes us out of the cohesive voice of the novel as a whole. that is not an easy feat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the conversation at the close of the chapter among the noblemen of Orgoreyn and Estraven is delightful to read, like a fantastic episode of circa-1992\u00a0Who\u2019s Line Is It Anyway?<\/a><\/em>, all wit and metaphors (astronomy, sledge-pulling) that build up without letting you down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n the heart of their conversation is the imminent change their nations will endure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our border now is no line between two hills, but the line our planet makes in circling the Sun.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n ah, me, ah, my. the horizon has expanded: the little world is so much bigger. i\u2019m remembering a story, probably one from\u00a0L.M. Montgomery<\/a>, about a child who one day makes it to the top of A Great Hill near his home, and suddenly realizes how big the world is, how much bigger than his little farmstead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Genly is an alien, but human like Estraven, Yegey, and Obsle. different, but connected. i am brooding on this issue now, of \u201cseparation\u201d as the dominant (Cartesian) narrative of my world, and my first unwavering convictions of connectedness of all beings. \u201cI\u2019m in the milk and the milk\u2019s in me\u201d<\/strong><\/em> (Maurice Sendak, In the Night Kitchen). by Meshe\u2019s milk<\/strong><\/em>, indeed\u2026 we humans produce various liquids, but it\u2019s milk that is the sweetest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" i have to take a moment to fangirl: LeGuin is masterly. in Chapter 6, One Way into Orgoreyn, she has managed to shift me from an Estraven-skeptic to an Estraven believer. the subtle changes in language, cadence, and diction separate us from the narrative voice of Genly Ai, but not such a shift that it… Continue reading by Meshe’s sweet milk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-club","tag-ursulaleguin","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}