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rest. He had kept himself, and lost the rest.
Like all children of Anarres he had had sexual experience freely with both boys and girls, but he and they had been children; he
Beshun, expert in delight, took him into the heart of sexuality, where there is no rancour and no ineptitude,
You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
Bedap, never very energetic sexually, accepted the homage of a younger boy who had a homosexual-idealistic crush on him, and let that suffice him.
They talked about the spatial representation of time as rhythm, and the connection of the ancient theories of the Numerical Harmonies with modern temporal physics.
“But the whole principle of mutual aid is designed to prevent suffering!”
barren, arid, and inchoate. The deserts of Southwest had a vast beauty,
“I was twenty-nine when I finished the Principles, Atro.” “Twenty-nine? Good God. That makes you the youngest recipient of the Seo Oen for a century or so.
offworlders can follow our physics. The Hainish call it materialism, and the Terrans call it mysticism, and then they both give up. Don’t
It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
with all its nations, classes, castes, cults, customs, and its magnificent, appalling, and interminable history.
On Anarres he had chosen, in defiance of the expectations of his society, to do the work he was individually called to do. To do it was to rebel: to risk the self for the sake of society. Here on Urras, that act of rebellion was a luxury, a self-indulgence. To be a physicist in A-Io was to serve not society, not mankind, not the truth, but the State.
