I looooove "Solitude" with an unholy passion. I think there are one or two other stories in the collection that may be objectively better, but "Solitude" took the shortcut right to my heart. (In her introductory notes, Le Guin mentions being inspired to write the story because she found it strange that so many writers are self-identified introverts, and yet they buy into mainstream Western culture's heroizing of the extrovert. So she set out to fix that. I love her.)
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Date: 2009-03-07 04:19 am (UTC)