They are of the dream time. I don't understand it, I can't say it in words. Everything dreams. The play of form, of being, is the dreaming of substance. Rocks have their dreams, and the earth changes. . . .But when the mind becomes conscious, when the rate of evolution speeds up, then you have to be careful. Careful of the world. You must learn the way. You must learn the skills, the art, the limits. A conscious mind must be part of the whole, intentionally and carefully--as the rock is part of the whole unconsciously. Do you see? Does it mean anything to you?
Page 15, paperback version by Virago Press 1997: ... Let me ask you this, Mr Ai: do you know, by your own experience, what patriotism is?_ __o_, I said, shaken by the force of the intese personality suddenly turning itself wholly upon me. __ don´t think I do. If by patriotism you don´t mean the love of one`s homeland, for that I do know._ __o, I don__ mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year. We__e followed our road too far. And you, who hardly know what I__ talking about, who show us the new road __ He broke off. After a while he went on, in control again, cool and polite: __t__ because of fear that I refuse to urge your cause with the king, now. But not fear for myself, Mr. Ai. I__ not acting patriotically. There are, after all, other nations on Gethen.
The Left Hand of Darkness
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Page 15, paperback version by Virago Press 1997: ... Let me ask you this, Mr Ai: do you know, by your own experience, what patriotism is?_ __o_, I said, shaken by the force of the intese personality suddenly turning itself wholly upon me. __ don´t think I do. If by patriotism you don´t mean the love of one`s homeland, for that I do know._ __o, I don__ mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year. We__e followed our road too far. And you, who hardly know what I__ talking about, who show us the new road __ He broke off. After a while he went on, in control again, cool and polite: __t__ because of fear that I refuse to urge your cause with the king, now. But not fear for myself, Mr. Ai. I__ not acting patriotically. There are, after all, other nations on Gethen.
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