The Left Hand of Darkness: 50th Anniversary Edition (Ace Science Fiction)

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

“To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.”

Or, like Tumass Song Angot, did they consider war to be a purely masculine displacement-activity, a vast Rape, and therefore in their experiment eliminate the masculinity that rapes and the femininity that is raped?

phlegm

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

when action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

effrontery

perfidy,

“No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.

So does the outcome of extrapolation. Strictly extrapolative works of science fiction generally arrive about where the Club of Rome arrives: somewhere between the gradual extinction of human liberty and the total extinction of terrestrail life.