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2023 is my year of rereading! reencountering things that filled me with comfort, identification, anger, joy. Picking up things that didn’t quite hit me right the first time, or reconsidering people and ideas I needed desperately in a specific moment.

It’s a lovely exercise, especially with one eye on the craft/technical aspect (how does this story pull off its trick?) and another just enjoying the cozy fellowship of a story that’s lived and changed along with me 🥰

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I picked up Ursula Le Guin’s translation of the Tao Te Ching a few years ago, based on a recommendation on MetaFilter. I liked it on first read. And I love it on second - especially because Le Guin is one of the people I miss most acutely who I’ve never actually met!! Her footnotes feel so comforting to me.
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“One of the things I love about Lao Tzu is he is funny. He’s explaining a profound and difficult truth here, one of those counterintuitive truths that, when the mind can accept them, suddenly double the size of the universe. He goes about it with this deadpan simplicity, talking about pots.” - Le Guin on ‘The uses of not’