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Ursula Le Guin makes a spirited case for virtuous words. Few have put it this magically. Very inspiring. The uninitiated can start by reading The Dispossesed.

To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth.

Ursula K. Le Guin: A Few Words to a Young Writer

Posted on Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 at 10:18 am and filed under books, readworthy.

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