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A review by laura_martens
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
4.0
“I haven't seen it on any of the lists of Books-You-Must-Read-While-Trump-Is-In-Power-And-The-Ice-caps-Are-Melting, and that surprises me. For all its strangeness, it seems to describe a recognisable world, the place we're in now or soon will be. Read it and marvel, and worry. Read it and look up at the sky.”
(In ‘Introduction’ by Roddy Doyle, p. x)
“He would always be one for whom the return was as important as the voyage out. To go was not enough for him, only half enough; he must come back. … You shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world. Yet from that acceptance of transience he evolved his vast theory, wherein what is most changeable is shown to be fullest of eternity, and your relationship to the river, and the river's relationship to you and to itself, turns out to be at once more complex and more reassuring than a mere lack of identity. You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.”
(p. 48)
(In ‘Introduction’ by Roddy Doyle, p. x)
“He would always be one for whom the return was as important as the voyage out. To go was not enough for him, only half enough; he must come back. … You shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world. Yet from that acceptance of transience he evolved his vast theory, wherein what is most changeable is shown to be fullest of eternity, and your relationship to the river, and the river's relationship to you and to itself, turns out to be at once more complex and more reassuring than a mere lack of identity. You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.”
(p. 48)