The Telling (Hainish Cycle, #8)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

hated to do it. I felt I was colluding.” “The margin between collusion and respect can be narrow,”

Colluding Vs respect

But he spoke, breaking the intense silence of the vast dusk landscape, where only the water murmured its resistance quietly and fiercely to the boat’s prow and sides.

Silence dreary

“There are pockets of cultural fossilisation and recalcitrant reactionary activity in this area.

cultural fozilization

Opinion ends reception.

Opinion perception

A yielding, an obedience, a willingness to accept these notes as the right notes, this pattern as the true pattern, is the essential gesture of performance, translation, and understanding. The gesture need not be permanent, a lasting posture of the mind or heart; yet it is not false. It is more than the suspension of disbelief needed to watch a play, yet less than a conversion. It is a position, a posture in the dance.

Acceptance

the task of becoming educated was interminable;