ENG237H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ursula K. Le Guin, Osmosis, Fredric Jameson
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Sequency and simultaneity: clue to how we are encouraged to read the novel, as it alternates between past and prese(cid:374)(cid:272)e i(cid:374) he(cid:448)ek(cid:859)s life, shevek is a temporal physicist, 2 types of time, sequency, linear timescale, simultaneity. He saw time turn back upon itself, a river flowing upward to the spring. If you are working to get money, you are working towards something in the future: simultaneity means all time is equal, relates to everyone being equal, reflects annares society. If everyone shares things, and you are not concerned with property, the future is not being prepared for. In annares, he is too assertive, to individual, too much egoizing. In urras, he is an odonian: he represents the potential for revolution on both worlds, e(cid:448)eals to he(cid:448)ek that a(cid:374)(cid:374)ares reall(cid:455) is(cid:374)(cid:859)t perfe(cid:272)t, over time, annares is moved away from its founding odonian ideals and practices.
