Comments on: Oh to live on “O” . . . https://globalspin.com/2003/08/oh-to-live-on-o/ a glimpse into the tiny mind of Chris Radcliff Sat, 01 May 2010 03:53:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8 By: debby https://globalspin.com/2003/08/oh-to-live-on-o/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Sat, 02 Aug 2003 23:34:09 +0000 http://globalspin.com/wp/2003/08/01/117/#comment-88 “O” is a planet in the LeGuin’s Hainish universe. On this bucolic, sustainably managed planet, marriages are quartets rather than couplets.

Telling the truth with lies is something LeGuin refers to in an essay in her non-fiction collection, “The Language of the Night.”

You shoudl try again. “The Left Hand of Darkness” is one of her classics or try some of LeGuin’s short stories, such as “A Fisherman of the Inland Sea.” Also, there are “young adult” stories, such as the Earthsea books, which start off sexist and progess down a quite feminist bent as the author grew in her own thinking.

]]> By: Deana https://globalspin.com/2003/08/oh-to-live-on-o/comment-page-1/#comment-87 Fri, 01 Aug 2003 20:59:47 +0000 http://globalspin.com/wp/2003/08/01/117/#comment-87 What is “O”? What is “tell(ing) the truth with clever lies”? I tried to read LeGuin back in the mid-80s and couldn’t finish the book, whatever it was.

I checked out her website, though. And Catwings 5, by a 1st grade class inspired by her work, was certainly an entertaining story.

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