November 02, 2004
Today We Push the Off Button
Orr stooped to unlace his shoes. He didn't want to get the Alien's bedspread dirty with his shoes, that would be scarcely a fair return for kindness. Stooping made him dizzy. "I am tired," he said. "I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the entire will power, the accumulated strength of my entire existence, to press one damned OFF button."
"You have lived well," the Alien said.
U.K. LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven
Posted by Emily at November 2, 2004 11:29 AM