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stevep

Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 23, 2018 - 04:33pm PT
This could as easily gone in the best writers thread, but RIP Ursula Le Guin, author of the Earthsea books, two scifi classics, The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness, and numerous other works.

One of my favorite authors as a kid, and one whose work I can revisit as an adult and still enjoy.
NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Jan 23, 2018 - 04:49pm PT
Wizard of Earthsea is the first book I remember feeling a deep connection to, somewhere around 6th grade. RIP.
Oplopanax

Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
Jan 23, 2018 - 05:06pm PT
"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit or it is nowhere."
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
Jan 23, 2018 - 05:10pm PT
Far advanced in her time.

Susan


Russ Walling

Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
Jan 23, 2018 - 05:17pm PT
One of my favorite Bond girls...

Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Jan 23, 2018 - 05:33pm PT
Loved her stories. RIP to a great writer.
dauwhe

Trad climber
Greenfield, MA
Jan 23, 2018 - 06:13pm PT
Not far off-topic: Her short story "Sur" was about a group of women who reached the South Pole before Amudsen, but never told anyone. The climax of "The Left Hand of Darkness" is a tale of crossing an ice cap on skis.

“I see life as a shared gift, received from others and passed on to others, and living and dying as one process, in which lies both our suffering and our reward. Without mortality to purchase it, how can we have the consciousness of eternity? I think the price is worth paying.”
ryanb

climber
Hamilton, MT
Jan 23, 2018 - 07:16pm PT
"I am not trying to say that I was happy, during those weeks of hauling a sledge across an ice-sheet in the dead of winter. I was hungry, overstrained, and often anxious, and it all got worse the longer it went on. I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy."

—The Left Hand Of Darkness
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Jan 23, 2018 - 07:28pm PT
At what point do these RIP threads become STOOPID to post on a "Climbers forum"???...

I think this place would be pretty boring if all climbers talked about was climbing. Some of these RIP threads have been flashes of the past, people I had forgotten about but who made an impact on me at the time.

We all read, listen to music, take or look at photographs, you name it. Don't be a grumpy old man, although coming from me that's the pot calling the kettle black... ;-)
zBrown

Ice climber
Jan 23, 2018 - 07:39pm PT
i think he was kidding

count the number of rip's lokker has started (even excluding the fake lokker ones)



I read quite a few Le Guinn books in graduate school. There was a "library" where everybody donated their paperbacks once they'd read them.

I cannot for the life of lokker remember any of them except The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov





Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Jan 23, 2018 - 07:40pm PT
Hook, line, and sinker...
zBrown

Ice climber
Jan 23, 2018 - 08:28pm PT


Well, Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
They were the best of friends
So when Frankie Lee needed money one day
Judas quickly pulled out a roll of tens
And placed them on a footstool
Just above the plotted plain
Sayin', "Take your pick, Frankie Boy
My loss will be your gain"


mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jan 23, 2018 - 09:00pm PT
Word mavens appreciate her use of ordinary natural things as names in Earthsea.

Alder Apple Aspen

Beech Berry Beryl Birch

Diamond Dragonfly Dulse Dune

Ember

Flag Flint

Gift

Ivory Ivy

Jasper

Lark Lily

Mead Moss

Oak Onyx Opal Otter

Pippin

Rose Rowan Rush

Silence Spark Sparrowhawk

Tawny

Veil

Yarrow

Then there are the invented ones...

Arren

Caspro (winner!)

Estrel

Ged Genly

Irian

Raj Rocannon

Solly

Tehanu Thorion

"There is great power, and great peril, in a name." Tombs of Atuan

Thank you, Ursula, and now take a deep bow and rest in peace.

"People who don't worry at least a little bit about semicolons aren't likely to be writers."

"Shoot for the top, always. You know you'll never make it, but what's the fun if you don't shoot for the top?"

"Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's kind of irresistible."
justthemaid

climber
Jim Henson's Basement
Jan 24, 2018 - 06:52am PT
Weird- I just recently finished re- reading my stack of her books. She was an amazingly creative spirit ... and a unique talent - particularly in a genre that was totally dominated by men in her generation.

RIP
Urizen

Ice climber
Berkeley, CA
Jan 24, 2018 - 08:45am PT
Locker,

On a "climbers" forum, threads like this are no more irrelevant, and no less, than the skiing threads, the road bike threads, the "what are you building" threads, the "cool bridge" threads--or, for that matter, the political threads that you seem to add to frequently.
SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
Jan 24, 2018 - 08:56am PT
As Amy Goodman stated on her show this morning. . .

"The king was pregnant!"
G_Gnome

Trad climber
Cali
Jan 24, 2018 - 09:38am PT
I always thought the Lathe of Heaven was one of her best. And if you had a really good imagination, scary as f*ck.
Oplopanax

Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
Feb 4, 2018 - 11:28am PT
"At dawn I was awake and saw that we had left everything behind except rock, and ice, and light, ... I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat."
marty(r)

climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
Feb 4, 2018 - 11:47am PT
My friend Arwen made this film about UKL: http://worldsofukl.com/ Check it out!
sempervirens

climber
Feb 4, 2018 - 12:50pm PT
Her father was a well known anthropologist at UC Berkeley and was involved with the management (don't know what else to call it) of Ishi, ca. 1905.

"Lathe of Heaven" tripped me out when I was a teenager. There was a movie made of it too, but I can't find it on-line.
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