-- Ender to Miro, Children of the Mind, chapter 3, by Orson Scott Card
Metaphysics of job-holding
1 day ago
Sunday, September 14, 2008
"I find out what I really want ...."
"I find out what I really want by seeing what I do. That's what we all do, if we're honest about it. We have our feelings, we make our decisions, but in the end we look back on our lives and see how sometimes we ignored our feelings, while most of our decisons were actually rationalizations because we had already decided in our secret hearts before we ever recognized it consciously."
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Did you just...
You did.
You just quoted Orson Scott Card...from the Ender series, no less.
*grins* Well, I'm impressed.
Ummm ... gosh, thanks. I think. (Did I just pass some kind of test I didn't know about?) ;-)
Wish I could nonchalantly brag that I'm an old fan, but in fact I started reading the Ender series at the recommendation of Wife's best friend D. When I finished Speaker for the Dead, I posted that I thought it had a lot to say about truth-vs-lying ... a topic that I find myself mulling in this blog with respect to my relationship with Wife.
But the fact is that by then I was hooked. You could not have paid me to forego books 3 and 4. (I'm halfway through Children of the Mind at this point.) Son 1 has a birthday coming up, and I'm thinking maybe Ender's Shadow ...?
Well, it's my super-secret geek test. ;)
Ender's Shadow (at least the first book) was arguably as good as Ender's Game...and surpasses some of the other books in the Ender series.
Wonderful how what we read is filtered through our experience like that, and through the literature, we gain further insight.
Love the quote. Perfect for an infidelity blog. I'm going to spend some time thinking on this...
Having just inadvertently duplicated your post, it's extra fun to read these comments.
Of the four I've read, I still liked Ender's Game the best. It was odd to read in one of Card's forewords that he considered it nothing more than the introduction to Speaker for the Dead. I was very disappointed while reading Xenocide to realize after about 500 pages that there was no way he could finish this looong book in the remaining pages. Card admits that Children of the Mind was originally intended simply to be the end of Xenocide.
I read Ender's Game a long time ago. I recently picked up Speaker on a whim, because various people had been mentioning it. Now I wonder if those subliminally blurred "various people" included you, in this post 8 months ago!
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