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Ursula K. Le Guin : Words Are My Matter

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

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Are You a Fear of the Imaginative?

In one of our past talks, i mistakenly confused this with our resistance to considering genre literature as or gonra fiction as literature. And wondered then, if now that genra fiction finally breaking down the walls, if that meant that america was coming to terms with its imagination in a healthy way. There's a relation. He've written here elsewhere, really wonderfully about an american specific fear of imagination. Ah, but still, as things get complicated, ah, the both reason and imagination need training. They need exercise just as much as the body does. We tend to a train some of the rational faculties, but to not lest less and less is the imagina. I think that

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