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Subject: Re: (Tears) The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
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James Nicoll wrote:
> The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
> 
> A physicist determined to complete his research emigrates from a planet
> of idealists to a planet of economic surpluses.
> 
> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-best-things-in-life-are-free
> 
When reading this book for the first time, I had trouble banishing the 
image of one of my professors.  I eventually figured out that privations 
in the second world war had given him some of Shevek's attitude.  Though 
he was congenial enough, I think he remained faintly surprised, or 
possibly amused, at the way we ignored the vast wealth in which we lived.

Other characters reminded me strongly of some older socialists I knew. 
Socialists of the "pitch in and get it done" type, not the champagne 
type.  LeGuin must have met some people of this class, as they are very 
well drawn.

William Hyde