Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions (Hainish Cycle, #1-3)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Think of the sunlight and the grass and the trees that bear fruit, Semley; think that not all roads that lead down lead up as well.”

There were seven of them,

seven dwarves you say

up there where the sun blinks.”

reëntered

Thurro-dowist

As in Walden

Alone’s not lonely.…”

Things can be hidden from a man’s own mind, can’t they, so that he can’t lay the hands of thought upon them.

“We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God’s truth, the universe at once began to exist.…