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The Dispossessed (Mass Market Paperback)
Le Guin, Ursula K. / Eos / 1994년 10월
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Ursula K. Le Guin is not just one of SF authors, but also a speculative fabulator, fabulous philosopher!
Must read before getting too old.
The passage I quote below reminds me of the dialogue between Zarathustra and Time, the famous scene from Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
But Le Guin is much better than Nietzsche in passing her minds to readers. Isn't she? :)
Everything that had happened to him was part of what was happening to him now. Takver saw no such obscure concatenations of effect/cause/effect, but then she was not a temporal physicist. She saw time naively as a road laid out. You walked ahead, and you got somewheere worth getting to.
But when Shevek took her metaphor and recast it in his terms, explaining that, unless the past and the future were made part of the present by memory and intentions, there was ... no road, nowhere to go, - P240
"It is only in consciousness, it seems, that we experience time at all. A little baby has no time; he can‘t distance himself from the past and understand now it relates to his present, or plan how his present might relate to his future. He does not know time passes; he does not understand death. The unconscious mind of the adult is like that still. In a dream there is no time, and succession is all mixed together. In myth and legend there is no time. ... - P290
... What past is it the tale means when it says ‘Once upon a time‘? And so, when the mystic makes the reconnection of his reason and his unconscious, he sees all becoming as one being, and understands the eternal return." - P291
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