Ursula K . Le Guin , " No Time To Spare : Thinking About What Matters " ( 2017 ) 여기 실린 , 작가 가 81 세 이 던 해 이후 에 쓴 , 짤막 한 에세이 들 을 읽 으면서 이런 저런 화제 에 대해 마치 그녀 가 말 하 는 것 을 듣 는 느낌 이 다 . 그녀 의 어떤 면 들 을 알 게 되 는 것 도 재미있 다 . 이를테면 , 여 가 또는 남 는 시간 에 대해서 ( In Your Spare Time ) , " The opposite of spare time is , I guess , occupied time . In my case I still don ' t know what spare time is because allmy time is occupied . It always has been andit is now . It is occupied by living . " I am free , but my time is not . My time is fully and vitallyoccupied with sleep , with daydreaming , . .. with writingpoetry , with writing prose , with thinking . " 호머 에 대해서 ( Papa H ) : " I was THINKING about Homer , and it occurred to me thathis two books are the two basic fantasy stories : the War and the Journey . " I think Homer outwits most writers who have writtenon the War by not taking side . " Of course you can take sides , and almost everybodydoes . I try not to , but it ' s no use . I just like the Trojansbetter than the Greeks . But Homer truly doesn ' ttake sides , and so he permits the story to betragic . By tragedy , mind and soul aregrieved , enlarged , and exalted . " The famous Helen plays a quite small part in the Iliad . ... I see her as opportunistic , immoral , emotionallyabout as deep as a cookie sheet . But if I believed thatthe good guys win , that the reward goes to thevirtuous , I ' d have to see her as an innocent beautywronged by Fate and saved by the Greeks . " 존경 의 태도 에 대해서 ( The Diminished Thing ) : " When there is no social pressure behind it , respectfulbehavior becomes a decision . an individual choice . " But when applied in moderation and with judgment , the social requirement of respectful behavior to others , by repressing aggression and requiring self - control , makes room for understanding . It creates a spacewhere appreciation and affection can grow . Opinion all too often leaves no room foranything but itself . " TGAN and TGOW : " If somebody came up to me in a dark alley with a sharpknife and said , ' Name The Great American Novel ordie ! ' I would gasp forth , squeakily , ' The Grapes of Wraths ! '" 채식주의 에 대해서 ( A Modest Proposal : Vegempathy ) : " Many people troubled by the suffering of animals -- animalswho would scarcely exist outside zoos if we did not breedthem for their meat , milk and eggs -- remain strangelyindifferent to the endless , enormous ordeal of thevegetables we keep in captivity or capture wild . " 나무 에 대해서 ( The Tree ) : " We took down the Christmas tree this morning . it wasa very pretty little fir , three and a half or four feet tall , a tabletop tree , said the woman at the florist ' snext to Trader Joe ' s , where we bought it . " An unmoving presence that says nothing , but isthere . A very taciturn visitor from Norway , perhaps . Speaking no English , entirely undemanding , wantingnothing but a drink of water every few days . Restful . A pleasure to look at . Holding darkness in it , a forest darkness , . .. " Our tree had not known forest . It was a forest treeall the same . And it had known rain , sun , ice , storm , all the weathers , all the winds , and no doubt a fewbirds , in its day . And the stars , in its night . " < 덧붙임 > The Literary Prize for the refusal of Literary Prizes By Ursula K . Le Guin December 6 , 2017 the Paris Review * 이 책 에 도 실려 있 는 글 이 다 .