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Le Guin on Fulfillment
“Fulfillment, Shevek thought, is a function of
time. The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal, The
variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually
promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to
the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a
closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.
Outside the locked room is the
landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage,
construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of
fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings.
It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and the future that it is a human act. Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of human strength; there is no good to be done without it.”
p. 275-6
Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed 2002 (1974) Orion: St. Ives
Friday, January 1, 2016
Food and Gift: 응답하라 1988
An exaggerated caricature but nonetheless holds cultural resonance
(from a current tv show setting the context in 1988 Seoul, Korea).
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