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以女同爱情作为这本书的卖点宣传真是太恶心了。是的，在这个世界里，这种爱是被禁止的，但在勒古恩的笔下，这种爱和其他任何一种爱并无两样：爱就是爱。正如人就只是人。所有的毁灭、禁止、遮蔽，所有的固步自封、自视为唯一正确、以真理为名消灭一切异己都在我们的世界、我们的历史里有迹可循，所有的故事都已重复过太多、太多遍。“这些只是踏向虚空的故事究竟有什么意义？”“文明是不占有，不夺取。野蛮是权力传承，是对他人发号施令。”你可以说她仍摆脱不掉对东方的一丝凝视和天真想象，“以技术换文明保存”的救世主心态，可是勒古恩多乐观啊，她相信人们可以跨越深渊，跨越造就了我们的无法诉说的伤痛相互理解，相信人可以看到另一个人作为ta自己而非所谓“集体的一分子”的脸。“我看到你了”，然后真正的交流才有可能开始。
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The Telling
DoubanThere have been eighty requests to send an Observer into the hinterlands of the planet Aka to study the natives. Much to everyone's surprise, the eighty-first request is granted, and Observer Sutty is sent upriver to Okzat-Ozkat, a small city in the foothills of Rangma, to talk to the remnants in hiding of a cult practising a banned religion. On Aka, everything that was written in the old scripts has been destroyed; modern aural literature is all written to Corporation specifications. The Corporation expects Sutty to report back so the non-standardised folk stories and songs can be wiped out and the people 're-educated'. But Sutty herself is in for an education she never imagined.