From 8a504b5549edf516aa3579a2174d38aa4beedb7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ktyl Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 01:25:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] update books --- content/books/index.gmi | 17 ++++------------- content/books/the-etymylogicon.gmi | 6 ++++++ content/books/the-left-hand-of-darkness.gmi | 9 ++++++++- 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) create mode 100644 content/books/the-etymylogicon.gmi diff --git a/content/books/index.gmi b/content/books/index.gmi index 926f8d0..78621dd 100644 --- a/content/books/index.gmi +++ b/content/books/index.gmi @@ -2,16 +2,9 @@ # Finished - -=> chaos-making-a-new-science Chaos: Making a New Science - -## The Left Hand of Darkness -> Ursula K. Le Guin - -On a mission of first contact Genly Ai lives among the androgynous, ambisexual, thoroughly human Genethians. He encounters their long history, the social dance of shifgrethor, their kemmer-ruled sexuality, ruthless politics and violent weather on the world of Winter. - -=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness Wikipedia - +=> ./chaos-making-a-new-science.gmi Chaos: Making a New Science +=> ./the-left-hand-of-darkness.gmi The Left Hand of Darkness +=> ./the-etymylogicon.gmi The Etymylogicon # Currently Reading @@ -19,9 +12,7 @@ On a mission of first contact Genly Ai lives among the androgynous, ambisexual, A collection of stories and mythology about the Moon -## The Etymylogicon -> Mark Forsyth -=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Etymologicon Wikipedia +## The Conquest of Bread # Next Up diff --git a/content/books/the-etymylogicon.gmi b/content/books/the-etymylogicon.gmi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..49aa21b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/books/the-etymylogicon.gmi @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +=> ../index.gmi Home + +# The Etymylogicon +> Mark Forsyth + +=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Etymologicon Wikipedia diff --git a/content/books/the-left-hand-of-darkness.gmi b/content/books/the-left-hand-of-darkness.gmi index 6338cb6..5d52191 100644 --- a/content/books/the-left-hand-of-darkness.gmi +++ b/content/books/the-left-hand-of-darkness.gmi @@ -1,6 +1,13 @@ => ../index.gmi Home -# On sex and politics +# The Left Hand of Darkness +> Ursula K. Le Guin + +On a mission of first contact Genly Ai lives among the androgynous, ambisexual, thoroughly human Genethians. He encounters their long history, the social dance of shifgrethor, their kemmer-ruled sexuality, ruthless politics and violent weather on the world of Winter. + +=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness Wikipedia + +## On sex and politics In The Left Hand of Darkness Le Guin poses the question of what society would be like, were sex and gender restricted to just a regular cycle of a few days a month, like a mammalian menstrual cycle or the biological phenomenon of being in heat, or rut. Taking place on the hostile, frozen world of Gethen, known to the protagonist Genly Ai as Winter, we experience a breadth of Gethenian experience. Gethenian folklore intersperses chapters of plot, enriching the reader's understanding of an alien but familiar culture. We follow Ai on his years-long mission of making first contact, trying to maneouvre a complex politic and win favour enough to phone home and bring Gethen into the greater galactic pan-human collective.