Ep 598 - A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Dragon and the Shadow
The reason he goes out and fights the dragon rather than just kind of live out his life as this servant wizard in the 90s is he's like, that shadow creature is going to come for me. And if it comes here, it could cause harm to this village and it would kill me and they wouldn't have a wizard. So I got to kill this drag or got to deal with this dragon. The back half of the book is him kind of winwakering around Earthsea just sailing from island to island,. Having adventures big and small on the quest to either first run from and then later confront the shadow. He runs from the shadow to one place where there's a rock
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