{"id":2076,"date":"2010-11-16T23:08:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T03:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2010-11-16T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T03:27:00","slug":"the-author-of-the-acacia-seeds-ursula-k-le-guin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2010\/11\/16\/the-author-of-the-acacia-seeds-ursula-k-le-guin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Author of the Acacia Seeds, Ursula K. Le Guin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Link to the short story,<a href=\"http:\/\/interconnected.org\/home\/more\/2007\/03\/acacia-seeds.html\"> The Author of the Acacia Seeds, Ursula K. Le Guin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This was warmly transcribed and posted by a Matt Webb in 2008 who stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My favourite short story is <em>The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ursulakleguin.com\/\">Ursula K. Le Guin<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a story of language, translation, and understanding things in  terms of themselves, and &#8211; like all of Le Guin&#8217;s best &#8211; progressively  takes me so far outside myself that I can glimpse what it would be like  to live non-sequentially, sideways to time, or without action and with  only response. Le Guin helps me understand how historically contingent <em>I<\/em> am (personally and socially) , which helps me accept the points of  views of others, human and non-human. Anyway, it&#8217;s a story which can be  read into endlessly, and also beautiful: It helps me see meaning in  broader scales and configurations than those to which I am accustomed.  (Le Guin&#8217;s <em>Always Coming Home<\/em> is in <a title=\"Technically, I suppose, '5 books that mean a lot to me.'\" href=\"http:\/\/interconnected.org\/home\/2005\/06\/02\/tom_coates_passed_me\" target=\"_blank\">my top 5 books<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">I&#8217;ve wanted to share it with friends, but short stories are inconvenient  to pass round because you have to lend the whole book. So I&#8217;ve  transcribed the story and put it online. I hope many more people read Le  Guin because of it. Read <a title=\"'The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics' by Ursula K. Le Guin.\" href=\"http:\/\/interconnected.org\/home\/more\/2007\/03\/acacia-seeds.html\">The Author of the Acacia Seeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/interconnected.org\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Webb<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link to the short story, The Author of the Acacia Seeds, Ursula K. Le Guin. This was warmly transcribed and posted by a Matt Webb in 2008 who stated: My favourite short story is The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics by Ursula K. Le &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2010\/11\/16\/the-author-of-the-acacia-seeds-ursula-k-le-guin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Author of the Acacia Seeds, Ursula K. Le Guin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}