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lutz
@lutz

for real though it's literally been my lifelong dream that someone would just invent a pill you could take when your hair reaches a length you're happy with and it stops growing. i know we talk a lot about flying cars but i feel like i've lost an even more profound future


mossy
@mossy

Wolfe: then as in the portrait I had seen from time immemorial ago, and in my childhood recollections of her: her hair was fixed in time as if in amber, ever the same

Le Guin: but we know that no hair ever stays the same, and it is an act of continual care to maintain—even as it shifts, sighs and rustles like the sea: high tide shorn back to low, and ever the slow gray of winter creeping in


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in reply to @mossy's post:

I’ll be honest, I think I did Wolfe a disservice of “no archaic words repurposed or aliens with ray guns pulling off their faces”

But in service of jotting down a quick post to get to the punchline, I’ll take the first draft

I appreciate how much the le guin echoes Lathe's "love has to be made and remade like bread" and underlying aquatic metaphors, while having the wry you-and-i humanist weariness of her essay-voice rather than the omniscient koan observer voice of Lathe.

Thank you! I just finished a relisten of the Tehanu audiobook, and thought I was in for that particular metaphor so was mildly disappointed for it not to appear. It being in Lathe instead sounds about right, just misfiled in memory or an echo of a previous reality's dream.