2020/91: Voices -- Ursula Le Guin
2020/91: Voices -- Ursula Le Guin
Memer is a child of rape in Ansul, a city occupied by the Alds, who fear and destroy books. In the house where Memer lives, there is a secret library: the head of the household, the Waylord, can enter it, and so can Memer. She is devoted to the Waylord, who's crippled by the torture he endured as a prisoner of the Alds: he teaches her to read, and together they take joy in the stories and histories they share.( no major spoilers )
A generation learns that knowledge is punished and safety lies in ignorance. The next generation doesn’t know they’re ignorant, because they don’t know what knowledge was. [p. 80]
Memer is a child of rape in Ansul, a city occupied by the Alds, who fear and destroy books. In the house where Memer lives, there is a secret library: the head of the household, the Waylord, can enter it, and so can Memer. She is devoted to the Waylord, who's crippled by the torture he endured as a prisoner of the Alds: he teaches her to read, and together they take joy in the stories and histories they share.( no major spoilers )