Spare none of the rites: Ursula Le Guin

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Spare none of the rites: Ursula Le Guin

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As her 60s new wave colleague Roger Zelazny once wrote "Spare none of the rites: one of the highest has died this day." Ursula Le Guin has been guarranteed dead by the NYT.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obit ... at-88.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/ ... dies-at-88
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')

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Sadly missed - I loved her fiction and still have copies around the house.

"What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it."
Ursula Le Guin - The Tombs of Atuan
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