Art, Imagination, and Freedom

When I clicked over to watch the video of Ursula K. Le Guin’s acceptance speech (it’s only six minutes; like all her work, it is elegantly concise) I was glad to discover that nearly sixty thousand people had been there before me. It has probably doubled since I scribbled these thoughts down. I hope so.

I realize that writing down my reactions is akin to a mouse squeaking about the elephant’s roar. But I fully believe that Ursula wants us mice squeaking about her ideas.

She starts off by saying...