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Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation – The Marginalian

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“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and…

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