nothing

Alexa 2022-04-23 07:02:25

After seeing another Rhoda unexpectedly at the end, I suddenly looked at my bookcase, where there was a novel that I had put on hold for a long time, Ursula Le Guin's "Nothing".
The silhouettes of the two globes are like Erilas and Uras. No world is perfect, even if you didn't get drunk at the age of seventeen, get into a car accident, and kill three people because of the crash. After four years of shift, I didn't become a cleaner, I didn't fall in love with a car accident victim; even if you were admitted to MIT as a minor, you were well-dressed, positive and confident, and became an ideal member to visit another world.
But none of this changes the fact that there was never a Garden of Eden in the world, there was no place for everything to go well, and no matter how we searched for it, there was always an empty little area of ​​our psyche to the chagrin of imperfection.

I never thought another Rhoda was in the car accident, but I also never thought there were no excuses worth fleeing at MIT. We pray for a different life, but even if we succeed in finding our ideal life, there will still be regrets in our lives.

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Extended Reading
  • Daniela 2021-12-16 08:01:16

    Do you know the problem with this piece? Under a topic with great potential, it can’t catch your heart, or even the character’s heart well.

  • Darron 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    It reminds people of that sentence, will there be another me, living the life I want. . . Although the pace is slow but very comfortable, the heroine is amazing

Another Earth quotes

  • Rhoda Williams: When early explorers first set out West across the Atlantic, most people thought the world was flat. Most people thought if you sailed far enough West, you would drop off a plane into nothing. Those vessels sailing out into the unknown, they weren't carrying noblemen or aristocrats, artists or merchants. They were crewed by people living on the edge of life: the madmen, orphans, ex-convicts, outcasts like myself. As a felon, I'm an unlikely candidate for most things. But perhaps not for this. Perhaps I am the most likely.

  • Richard Berendzen: It would be very hard to think "I am over there" and "Can I go meet me?" and "Is that me better than this me?" "Can I learn from the other me?" "Has the other me made the same mistakes I've made?" Or, "Can I sit down and have a conversation with me?" Wouldn't that be an interesting thing? The truth is, we do that all day long every day. People don't admit it and they don't think about it too much, but they do. Every day, they're talking in their own head. "What's he doing?" "Why'd he do that?" "What did she think?" "Did I say the right thing?" In this case, there's another you out there.