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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 23, 2018 - 04:33pm PT
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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.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Jan 23, 2018 - 04:49pm PT
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Wizard of Earthsea is the first book I remember feeling a deep connection to, somewhere around 6th grade. RIP.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Jan 23, 2018 - 05:06pm PT
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"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."
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Jan 23, 2018 - 05:10pm PT
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Far advanced in her time.
Susan
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Jan 23, 2018 - 05:17pm PT
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One of my favorite Bond girls...
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jan 23, 2018 - 05:33pm PT
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Loved her stories. RIP to a great writer.
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dauwhe
Trad climber
Greenfield, MA
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Jan 23, 2018 - 06:13pm PT
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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.”
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ryanb
climber
Hamilton, MT
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Jan 23, 2018 - 07:16pm PT
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"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
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jan 23, 2018 - 07:28pm PT
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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... ;-)
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 23, 2018 - 07:39pm PT
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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
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jan 23, 2018 - 07:40pm PT
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Hook, line, and sinker...
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 23, 2018 - 08:28pm PT
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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"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 23, 2018 - 09:00pm PT
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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."
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Jan 24, 2018 - 06:52am PT
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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
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Urizen
Ice climber
Berkeley, CA
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Jan 24, 2018 - 08:45am PT
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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.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jan 24, 2018 - 08:56am PT
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As Amy Goodman stated on her show this morning. . .
"The king was pregnant!"
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Jan 24, 2018 - 09:38am PT
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I always thought the Lathe of Heaven was one of her best. And if you had a really good imagination, scary as f*ck.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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"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."
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sempervirens
climber
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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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