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The Left Hand of Darkness by
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Estraven
King Argaven XV
The Palace of Erhenrang
eternal breadapple
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Truth is a matter of the imagination.
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King Argaven XV, in white tunic and shirt and breeches, with leggings of saffron leather and a peaked yellow cap. A gold finger-ring is his only adornment and sign of office.
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The Palace of Erhenrang is an inner city, a walled wilderness of palaces, towers, gardens, courtyards, cloisters, roofed bridgeways, roofless tunnel-walks, small forests and dungeon-keeps, the product of centuries of paranoia on a grand scale. Over it all rise the grim, red, elaborate walls of the Royal House
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eternal breadapples transmuted by a cook whose art I heartily praised.
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the politician is very often something less than an integral man.
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he’s a king, and does not see things rationally, but as a king. ...his power is threatened, his kingdom is a dust mote in space, his kingship is a joke to men who rule a hundred worlds.
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No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year. We’ve followed our road too far.
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Of all the dark, obstructive, enigmatic souls I had met in this bleak city, his was the darkest.
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