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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: (Tears) The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:41:00 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vk9vmp$q0pb$1@dont-email.me>,
William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>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.
>
There was a chem prof at UW whose name I am blanking on, who came up
from Caribbean poverty and had absolutely no patience with people 
being fussy about necessities. 



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