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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Ursula K. Le Guin on Novels and Good Novels

 "In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we’re done with it, we may find—if it’s a good novel—that we’re a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having met a new face."

--Ursula K. Le Guin, "Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness"

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