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Ursula Le Guin

The Day Before the Revolution

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  • Eira Rangelfez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    Seventy-two years and she had never had time to learn what they were called.
  • Eira Rangelfez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    she had been the lover, the swimmer in the midst of life, but Taviri, dying, had taken that woman away with him. There was nothing left, really, but the foundation.
  • Eira Rangelfez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    She was herself. Indeed she had been the tireless worker and thinker, but a blood clot in a vein had taken that woman away from her.
  • Eira Rangelfez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    Nobody looked at her. Odo, who was Odo? Famous revolutionary, author of Community, The Analogy, etc. etc. She, who was she? An old woman with grey hair and a red face sitting on a dirty doorstep in a slum, muttering to herself.
  • Eira Rangelfez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    was their business. Just so long as it wasn’t the business of Business, the source of profit and the means of power for other people.
  • Eira Rangelfez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    “What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.”
  • Eira Rangelfez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    She learned from them, but they didn’t learn from her; they had learnt all she had to teach long ago, from her books, from the Movement.
  • Eira Rangelfez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    Amai had grown up in Odonian Houses, born to the Revolution, a true daughter of anarchy.
  • Eira Rangelfez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    Analogy which was certainly the solidest intellectual work she had ever done, all of that had been written in the Fort in Drio, in the cell, after Asieo’s death.
  • Eira Rangelfez uma citaçãohá 4 anos
    There were always more people wanting to live in an Odonian House than could be properly accommodated. She had this big room all to herself only because she was an old woman who had had a stroke. And maybe because she was Odo.
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