Ursula Le Guin stands at the podium to accept her award. “We live in Capitalism,” she says. She looks out at the audience and raises her eyebrows and shrugs just a little. “Its powers seem inescapable.” Here she pauses a moment and looks up again folding her arms on the podium. She leans forward. […]
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Reading Our Books
Tue, 7 Sep 2010, 07:00 PM (-06:00)
It was the end of the day. The fair and industrious Trudy was sitting in the green recliner with her feet up. She was reading a book. I was sitting in the beige recliner reading my book. Periodically she would chuckle and sometimes laugh out loud. I turned to watch her. She was smiling and chortling […]