<story><title>Ursula Le Guin has died</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>macrael</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I am not trying to say that I was happy, during those weeks of hauling a sledge across an ice-sheet in the dead of winter. I was hungry, overstrained, and often anxious, and it all got worse the longer it went on. I certainly wasn&amp;#x27;t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can&amp;#x27;t earn, and can&amp;#x27;t keep, and often don&amp;#x27;t even recognize at the time; I mean joy.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;—The Left Hand Of Darkness</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>labster</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a lot in &lt;i&gt;The Left Hand of Darkness&lt;/i&gt;, but the thing I got out of it is there are some things that can&amp;#x27;t be learned by being told the answer. I could tell you what the left hand of darkness is right now, but if you didn&amp;#x27;t read the book, you&amp;#x27;d be none the wiser.  Some things can only be taught through experiencing it yourself, or through the proxy of storytelling.&lt;p&gt;Storytelling is the greatest tool we have for passing down wisdom to the next generation. Ursula LeGuin, we celebrate what you have taught us and will continue to teach us, and we mourn your passing.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ursula Le Guin has died</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>macrael</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I am not trying to say that I was happy, during those weeks of hauling a sledge across an ice-sheet in the dead of winter. I was hungry, overstrained, and often anxious, and it all got worse the longer it went on. I certainly wasn&amp;#x27;t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can&amp;#x27;t earn, and can&amp;#x27;t keep, and often don&amp;#x27;t even recognize at the time; I mean joy.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;—The Left Hand Of Darkness</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Maultasche</author><text>I loved that book. I read it once and never forgot it. I immediately remembered what part of the book that quote was from even though it&amp;#x27;s been 20 years since I read it.</text></comment>