HackMDAlways Coming Home - Ξ2T
By Ursula K. LeGuin
tags: pluriverse, always-coming-home, book-club
LeGuin completely imagined a new society. The Valley was based on seemingly fond memories of her childhood.
No matter where our journies take us we are in a sense always coming home.
…How our rituals define what is important to us
A First Note
The main point of the book is their voices speaking for themselves in stories and life-stories, plays, poems, and songs. If the reader will bear with some unfamiliar terms they will all be made clear at last.
All we ever have is here, now.
The Quail Song
Run two quail
rise two quail
two quail run
two quail rise
from the meadows by the river
Towards an Archaelogy of the Future
How I envy them their shovels and sieves and tape measures, all their tools, and their wise, expert hands that touch and hold what they find! Not for long; they'll give it to the museum, of course; but they did hold it for a moment in their hands.
My gold is in the shards of the broken pot at the end of the rainbow. Dig there!
If they had a town here it was made of what the woods and fields are made of, and is gone.
They owned their Valley very lightly, with easy hands. They walked softly here. So will the others, the ones I seek.
Stone Telling, Part One
The Serpentine Codex
Chart of the Nine Houses
Where it is
Pandora Worries About What She is Doing: The Pattern
Some Stories Told Aloud
Some Stories Told Aloud One Evening
Shahugoten
The Keeper
Dried Mice
Dira
Poems, First Section
How to Die in the Valley
Pandora Sitting by the Creek
Four Romantic Tales
The Miller
Lost
The Brave Men
At the Springs of Orlu
Poems, Second Section
Four Histories
Old Women Hating
A War with the Pig
People
The Town of Chumo
The Trouble with the Cotton People
Pandora Worrying About What She is Doing: She Addresses
Time and the City
The City
A Hole in the Air
Big Man and Little Man
Beginnings
Time in the Valley
Stone Telling, Part Two
Dramatic Works
A Note on the Valley Stage
The Wedding
Night at Chukulmas
The Shouting Man, the Red Woman, and the Bears
Tabetupah
The Plumed Water
Chandi
Pandora, Worrying About What She is Doing, Finds a Way Into the Valley Through the Scrub Oak
Dancing the Moon
Poems, Third Section
Eight Life Stories
The Train
She Listens
Junco
The Bright Void of the Wind
White Tree
The Third Child's Story
The Dog at the Door
The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-na
Some Brief Valley Texts
Pandora Converses with the Archivist of the Library of the Madrone Lodge at Wakwaha-Na
Dangerous People
A Note about the Novel
Chapter Two
Pandora Gently to the Gentle Reader
Stone Telling, Part Three
Messages Concerning the Condor
About a Meeting Concerning the Warriors
Poems, Fourth Section
From the People of the Houses of Earth in the Valley
The Back of the Book
Long Names of Houses
Some of the Other People of the Valley
I. Animals of the Obsidian
II. Animals of the Blue Clay
Kinfolk
Lodges, Societies, Arts
What They Wore in the Valley**
What They Ate
Kesh Musical Instruments
Maps
The World Dance
The Sun Dance
About the Train
Some Notes on Medical Practices
A Treatise on Practices
Playing
Some Generative Metaphors
Three Poems by Pandora
Living on the Coast, Energy, and Dancing
Love
Written Kesh
Alphabet and Pronunciation
The Modes of Earth and Sky
A Note and a Chart Concerning Narrative Modes
Spoken and Written Literature
Pandora No Longer Worrying
Glossary
Kesh Numbers
