SOLVED. Le Guin essay on language in sci-fi/fantasy [s]

[Laura]

For one of my college courses, we read an essay by Ursula K. Le Guin on how the language style of sci-fi/fantasy should be different from other forms of narrative. I remember her pulling a quote from a current fantasy novel (for some reason I think it was a Deryni book), then showing how by merely changing a couple words the passage could be talking about an everyday occurrence in our own normal modern world. She has a wonderful line about how Pegasus' wings are not so easily clipped, if he had wings to begin with.

I would love to find a copy of this essay, but I have no idea what its title is or what book it might have been published in. I've skimmed through both Language of the Night and Steering the Craft, and I am fairly certain it is not in either of those.

Any ideas?

[Cassiel]

Here is a list with a couple of other books she's written, maybe it is in one that you didn't mention....


Criticism

The Wave in the Mind, Shambhala, 2004

Steering the Craft. Eighth Mountain 1998

The Language of the Night (revised ed.). HarperCollins 1992

Dancing at the Edge of the World. Grove 1989

[Heron]

The essay with that line in it is called "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" and can be found in both The Language of the Night, and another complilation called Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader, by David Sandner. I use GoogleBookSearch a lot if I remember a particular line, because it searches the actual content of any books that have been put online. Thats how I found this one.
And the line, if you're looking for it again, is:
"You can't clip Pegasus' wings that easily - not if he has wings."
Hope this helps!

[Laura]

Ah, excellent, thanks so much! That's what I get for skimming too quickly through the options. I'll keep GoogleBookSearch in mind, I hadn't realized it searched within texts.