Hi everyone, I've just recently joined the ekumen group. I'm 16 years old and I live in San Jose, California. I’ve been researching about Ursula K. Le Guin...
... I don't want to do your homework for you, but perhaps we can help a little. ... This is a good idea. (But a Venn diagram??) If I were your teacher, I ...
Hi RantriX, Don't forget that the 60s and 70s were the time of "second wave" feminism, with a great deal of feminist consciousness-raising groups and a strong ...
Hi, I'm Filiz from Turkey,I've been trying to follow the mails for a long time and I was afraid to declare any of my opinions on Le Guin because of my lack of...
Filiz said - ... I feel jealous too - I wish our teachers had asked us to read Lathe of Heaven when I was at school, instead of Tess of the D'Urbevilles. ... ...
Hi, Alison I've no idea about 'The Telling' because it is very hard for me to get a Le Guin book unless it is translated into Turkish. The only English ...
... And the rest of us too. Taoism, in this sense, is not about striving less: it is about striving when it is time to strive, and keeping still when it is...
While reading the Lathe of Heaven, Ursual K. Le Guin always have a quote before a chapter... I do not understand the significant of this... can someone help me...
Dear Filiz How would you feel about posting your mailing address so that ekumen members can send you Ursula books (we get a few in second hand bookshops here...
In Le Guin's Essay "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" What does Omelas mean? The melas part could be Salem backwards refering to the Salem witch trials and...
... Le Guin says "...it came from a road sign: Salem (Oregon) backwards. Don't you read road signs backwards? POTS. WOLS nerdlihc. Ocsicnarf Nas...Salem equals...
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... WARNING: Most of us non-Turks will probably see the accented characters here as y-with-acute, but it is really i-with-no-dot. Using i rather than y is...
These are never easy quotations to interpret, and the interpretations are supposed to give you insight into the forthcoming text ( chapter, etc.) You need to...
The term is "omela". Separating out the "O" won't work. Search further in Le Guin's writing for the explanation Regards- dthieme ... From: crewchick1114 To:...
Where do you get your ideas from Ms Le Guin? From Dostoevsky and from reading roadsigns backwards, or course, doesn't everybody/ Omelas is 'Salem, Oregon'...
Hi, in her essay "Is Gender Necessary? Redux" Le Guin states that she had written a screenplay of "The Left Hand of Darkness" in 1985. There she used the...
Hi, Maybe a little bit irrelevant but in a compilation of stories (probably The Compass Rose),in the introduction of a story (Winter's King) Ms.LeGuin states...
If i recall correctly, the story to which you refer is contained in "The wind twelve quarters". She [U.K. LeGuin] explained that since the neutral pronoun...
The 25 anniversary edition of "Left Hand" contains an appendix in which Le Guin tries out various other ways of handling the pronoun situation. - David Bratman...
"crewchick" asked what Omelas meant. In one of her essays Le guin explained that it came from her habit of reading road signs backwards. Salem, Oregon was...
I'm not going to be able to find exactly where she said it, but in one of her discussions of pronouns, Le guin points out that "they" can and has long been ...
Attention:the ekumen site editor/director-- whatever As a regular user ofthe ekumen web-site, I just stumbled onto a bpoosibility at a local used-bookstore...
... First, apologies for my slow response time -- my workload is really heavy at present so I don't have much time for responding to email. I, Dave Awl, am the...
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Well....I'm saying "Hi" ^.^ As a foreigner, and living in a not english-speaking country, I find often difficulties in the search of Le Guin books. I'm not...
Dear Darius, Hi! I live in France and I can usually get my hands on new books, by ordering on the net, and I think I have all of the old ones, but I used to ...
