If there is one thing that I remember about first year human geography is that we all live in danger zones. Winnipeg is located in a flood zone and we built an alternatirve river around the city to protect it. There is no where on earth that humans can escape from all of earths excitment and sometimes distruction.
I liked reading Le Guin because it was easy, personal, and accepted the erruption for the excitment and adventure that it was, not the trouble it caused for people.
Sometimes associating gender roles to things drive me crazy, in the French language there are things that are gender specific and it is meant to be that way and set up for that. In English we do it not because it should be but because we don't have the right words. I liked the feminist like view Le Guin had of the volcano. It bleched, fart and roared (I am womyn hear me roar, type deal). It was still a lady but let the true side show not just the legs crossed version.
Finally Wilson, I am sure that I will be able to relate to him when I am done this program (and after I spend some time at home, I am going to want to go out and discover and do cool things, but am most likely going to get stuck on one or two wonderful thhings (for him the bird of paradice) and dwell on that. UMM I wonder what it will be? Composting and .... sure there will be something else, maybe snakes.
Yup. I loved all the same things about Le Guin. I had some apprehensiveness towards the thought of placing gender roles on such things, but I do call Earth my mother, so if she has big exploding breasts like volcanoes...why not!
ReplyDeleteIf you get to know Wilson a little more, you may begin to appreciate ants. Even though I dislike them greatly, Wilson helped me like them less.
ReplyDeleteMy mom and I always had this little thing we did before we left the house to go out into the "real" world and kick some butt, we always would roar. haha this probably sounds really chessy and stupid. It first started as a joke but then became natural bc it was a nice preparation. We weren't really serious about it but it was fun. And I really like Sami's comment above this!
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