Krista (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kristajhl) wrote,@ 2009-04-28 10:58:00 |
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Ursula Le Guin & Alan Lightman reading
I woke up yesterday to a pleasant surprise--an email in my inbox informing me I'd won two free tickets to the Ursula K. Le Guin and Alan Lightman reading at the 92nd St Y! Luckilythe_slow_train could join me, help me take advantage of the unexpected bounty, and it was a great night.
Mr. Lightman read excerpts from his current WIP and also Einstein's Dreams. Ms. Le Guin read a poem, and excerpts from Lavinia.
The readings were terrific and in the Q&A afterwards, both authors were funny and articulate.
I woke up yesterday to a pleasant surprise--an email in my inbox informing me I'd won two free tickets to the Ursula K. Le Guin and Alan Lightman reading at the 92nd St Y! Luckily
the_slow_train could join me, help me take advantage of the unexpected bounty, and it was a great night.Mr. Lightman read excerpts from his current WIP and also Einstein's Dreams. Ms. Le Guin read a poem, and excerpts from Lavinia.
The readings were terrific and in the Q&A afterwards, both authors were funny and articulate.
- "First to create difference -- to establish strangeness -- then to let the fiery arc of human emotion leap and close the gap: this acrobatics of the imagination fascinates and satisfies me as almost no other." Ursula K. Le Guin
- "It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope." Ursula K. Le Guin
- "Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case." Alan LIghtman, Einstein's Dream
