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Copyright © 1971 by Ursula K. Le Guin,
Published by arrangement with Charles Scribner’s Sons,
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-162760
First Avon printing, April, 1973,
Sixth Printing
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- The Portal of God is non-existence. Dr. William Haber’s…
- “Do you try to deprive yourself of food and water, Mr. Orr?…
- He glanced at Haber to make sure that the doctor knew what…
- “And since then? ” “Well, there’re some girls at my office,…
- “What do you want to wait for? ” “But I can’t fall asleep…
- “Good. Keep gazing at it, and breathing regularly; soon…
- “It was. .. . I was walking in this field, and it was off…
- Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They…
- “Doesn’t it worry you? ” “Irrelevant, ” said the doctor,…
- “Would it be possible, ” he said diffidently, “for you to…
- “Saturday, then. ” “All right. ” He left, carrying his damp…
- So great a joy filled Orr that, among the forty-two persons…
- Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except…
- He looked down at his hands for a minute, evidently trying…
- “Yes, ” he said, morose but firm. “It was about the cabin,…
- When the Great Way is lost, we get benevolence and righteousness.…
- “Will it stimulate the pleasure center, or the speech center?…
- Then he apologized. “Sorry. You come at me so suddenly.…
- “No. ” As a matter of fact, he had tried stimulating Orr’s…
- Of course, Haber thought, a man who saw a miracle would…
- There was a long pause. “You look beat, ” Haber said, a…
- It may remain for us to learn. .. that our task is only…
- “Are you all right? ” “Yes, fine. Just sort of tired. ”…
- There were no songbirds any more, either. The effects of…
- Presently he felt Haber’s hand heavy on his shoulder. “Bad…
- That Haber could have thus got out of communication with…
- Daydream, which is to thought as the nebula is to the star,…
- The little car was soon free of the city, for the smear…
- Here, short, bloodshot, psychotic, and in hiding, here he…
- He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how…
- “Shit color. ” “The color of the earth. ” “Are you a Portlander?…
- But she was caught in a role and couldn’t back out of it…
- Heaven and Earth are not humane. In the Second World War…
- “Dr. Haber, ” one of them said. It was Orr. “It’s about…
- “We’d better get back upstairs, ” Haber said, getting up.…
- “Worthy, ” said the Alien, and took a short, checked step…
- Those who dream of feasting wake to lamendation. It was…
- For, these days, Haber did talk freely and fully to Orr…
- Orr bought a tasteless plateful of fish and chips with African…
- “I guess so, ” Orr said; actually he had never given it…
- “Depend on what? ” “Well. .. I don’t know. If reincarnation…
- But they were not there. Nor was he downtown talking to…
- “What do you mean by that: ‘the worse it gets’? Look here,…
- Il descend, reveille, l’autre cote du reve. It was only…
- “One swallow does not make a summer, ” it said. “Many hands…
- He stood looking at her and smiling, a broad radiant smile…
- She had met him only once, and briefly, when he first took…
- “Good. Now, listen carefully. You’re going to have another…
- “Why? ” “Because it works. ” “‘Works how? ” “You get a little…
- “Dreaming what? So what? ” “Look out the window. ” She had…
- I’ve got to get help, he thought, I can’t handle this alone.…