This just happened to be the very next message I received after posting "Which science fiction writer you are."
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 29, 2007 9:02 PM Subject: [peaceinterfaith] quote from Voices by Ursula K. Le Guin To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ursula K.Le Guin has published a new book, *Voices*, which is marketed as a young adult novel, but like all her books is full of insight into the way people behave. *Voices* is the story of a young girl involved in the (almost) nonviolent overthrow of an occupying army by a conquered people. It also has a lot to say about religion as a cause of war and the power of the word over the sword. Here is an insightful passage: "I wonder if men find it easier than women do to consider people not as bodies, as lives, but as numbers, figures, toys of the mind to be pushed about a battleground of the mind. This disembodiment gives pleasure, exciting them and freeing them to act for the sake of acting, for the sake of manipulating the figures, the game pieces. Love of country, or honor, or freedom, then, may be names they give that pleasure to justify it to the gods and to the people who suffer and kill and die in the game. So those words – love, honor, freedom – are degraded from their true sense. Then people may come to hold them in contempt as meaningless, and poets must struggle to give them back their truth." (c) 2006 by Ursula K. Le Guin, ISBN-13: 978-0-15-205678-0, pg. 378. ------------------------------ *Check out the new AOL*<http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/1615326657x4311227241x4298082137/aol?redir=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaol%2Ecom%2Fnewaol>. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. __._,_.___ Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peaceinterfaith/join;_ylc=X3oDMTJmM2VsbjFvBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzkyNDY1ODQEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA2MTEzODU4BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3N0bmdzBHN0aW1lAzExNzAxMzMzNTc->(Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:+Digest>| Switch to Fully Featured<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:+Fully+Featured> Visit Your Group <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peaceinterfaith;_ylc=X3oDMTJkcW0ydjlsBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzkyNDY1ODQEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA2MTEzODU4BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA2hwZgRzdGltZQMxMTcwMTMzMzU3>| Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> | Unsubscribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __,_._,___ -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages: 408-904-7198 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
