Re: First SF-Book

From: Edward James (E.F.James@READING.AC.UK)
Date: Wed May 21 1997 - 07:52:06 PDT


>
> I'm fairly sure it's from a piece of poetry in the novel, and I believe
> LeGuin wrote the poem for the novel - so far as I know it is not an
> English or American idiomatic expression.
>
> "Light is the left hand of darkness,
> And darkness the right hand of light."
>
> --Ruth Ann
>

Which is presumably intended to encapsulate the Taoist message of the
book?

Edward James



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