The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

by Ursula K. Le Guin

“He didn’t really guide us,” the fourteen-year-old argued. “Yes, he did. We followed his weakness. His incompleteness. Failure’s open. Look at water, Esi. It finds the weak places in the rock, the openings, the hollows, the absences.