At 11:34 AM 6/1/97 -0400, Joel VanLaven wrote:
> On the other hand, LeGuin does seem to take hetero-sexual love,
>marriage, and parenthood as the be-all and end-all of human existance. It
>seems like that is the climax and resolution of all of her stories. Much
>of the conflict is dealing with not having that. Once that conflict is
>resolved, there isn't anything to write about.
>
> Of course I haven't read nearly all of her books either and am making
>wild leaps of conjecture, but somewhere in there those were the feelings I
>got.
Eh? Did you just slip and write "LeGuin" instead of "L'Engle"? Wouldn't
want to bother writing a rebuttal if it was just a typo.
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the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and
servilities of the other." Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas
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