Lavinia

by Ursula K. Le Guin

She’s pious.’ By that word I meant responsible, faithful to duty, open to awe. My father had taught me the meaning of the word and the value of it.

be. I had not learned how peace galls men, how they gather impatient rage against it as it continues, how even while they pray the powers for peace they work against it and make certain it will be broken and give way to battle, slaughter, rape, and waste.