[[Ursula Le Guin]]'in kitabı. --- ### İçindekiler --- ### Özet #### Bölüm 1 - Mannie hastanede, radyasyona maruz kalmış. Açlık ve kıtlık var. Doktor ona isim ver diyor ama Mannie vermiyor. Sanırım başkasının ilaç kartını kullanmış. #### Bölüm 2 --- ### Notlar #### Google Books notları - sea there is no compass but nearer and farther - Page 4 - 6 Jun - what will the mind do, each morning, waking? - deniz anasından bahsediyordu, bu ne demek şimdi? - Page 7 - 16 Jun - “You know there’s two hundred sixty kids in that one complex suffering from kwashiorkor? All low-income or Basic Support families, and they aren’t getting protein. And what the hell am I supposed to do about it? I’ve put in five different reqs for Minimal Protein Ration for those kids and they don’t come, it’s all red tape and excuses. People on Basic Support can afford to buy sufficient food, they keep telling me. Sure, but what if the food isn’t there to buy? Ah, the hell with it. I go give ’em Vitamin C shots and try to pretend that starvation is just scurvy…” - yoksulluk, yiyecek azlığı olan zorlu bir ortam. insanlar develt desteği vs ile gıda alıyor, minimum oranlarda beslenme var - Page 9 - 16 Jun - CHUANG TSE : XXIII - Zhuang Zhou, commonly known as Zhuangzi, was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BC during the Warring States period, a period corresponding to the summit of Chinese philosophy, the Hundred Schools of Thought. - Page 11 - 27 Jun - barbiturates: Uyku ilacı - Page 12 - 27 Jun - jovial: neşeli - Page 13 - 27 Jun - dream deprivation: rüya eksikliği - Page 13 - 27 Jun - I don’t have nightmares more than most people, I think,” Orr was saying, looking down at his hands. “Nothing special. I’m … afraid of dreaming. - rüya görmekten korkuyor - Page 14 - 27 Jun - I have had dreams that … that affected the … non-dream world. The real world.” - gerçek dünyayı etkileyen rüyalar görüyor. - Page 17 - 15 Jul - the dream really did change reality. It made a different reality, retroactively, which she’d been part of all along. Being in it, she had no memory of any other. - Bu konu Zaman seyahati yapanların yaşadığına benzer bir Sorun mu? - Page 23 - 15 Jul - Orr obediently tipped his head back, Haber, close beside him, reached out quickly and quietly and put his left hand behind the man’s head, pressing firmly with thumb and one finger behind and below each ear; at the same time with right thumb and finger he pressed hard on the bared throat, just below the soft, blond beard, where the vagus nerve and carotid artery run. He was aware of the fine, sallow skin under his fingers; he felt the first startled movement of protest, then saw the clear eyes closing. He felt a thrill of enjoyment of his own skill, his instant dominance over the patient, even as he was muttering softly and rapidly, “You’re going to sleep now; close your eyes, sleep, relax, let your mind go blank; you’re going to sleep, you’re relaxed, you’re going limp - hipnoz tarifi - Page 31 - 15 Jul - To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment - anlayışın bittiği noktayı kabullenmek bir erdemdir - Chuang Tse - Page 32 - 16 Jul - it would take several centuries for the CO2 to clear out of the air, if it ever did. New York was going to be one of the larger casualties of the Greenhouse Effect, as the polar ice kept melting and the sea kept rising; indeed all Boswash was imperiled. - atmosferdeki Co2 nin temizlenmesi birkaç yüzyıl alırdı. Sera etkisinin ilk kurbanlarından biri New-York olacak gibi görünüyordu: kutup buzulları eriyip deniz seviyesi yükseldikçe Boswash tehlikede idi. - Page 32 - 16 Jul - It had always rained in western Oregon, but now it rained ceaselessly, steadily, tepidly. It was like living in a downpour of warm soup, forever - Oregon her zaman yağmurluydu artık ama hiç durmuyordu yağmur. Sanki sürekli ılık bir Çorba yağıyordu gökten. - Page 33 - 16 Jul - he had always lived there and because he had no reason to believe that life anywhere else would be better, or different. - hep orada yaşamıştı Çünkü hayatın başka bir yerde daha iyi olacağına dair bir inancı yoktu. - Page 44 - 17 Jul - the crack-up of the private car economy - Page 46 - 17 Jul - It would have helped a lot if he’d told me that he can see what I see, told me that it’s not just delusion - Dr. Haber hastasının ne hissettiğini göremiyor mu? yoksa gizli bir gün demi mi var? - Page 48 - 17 Jul - private car strangled in its own exhaust, ramp-style parking buildings had gone up to fifteen and twenty stories. - Page 48 - 17 Jul - Burnside, still smelled of ghostly gasoline fumes. Its cement floors were stained with the excreta of innumerable engines, the wheelprints of the dinosaurs were fossilized in the dust of its echoing halls. - Page 59 - 18 Jul - When the Great Way is lost, we get benevolence and righteousness.— LAO TSE: XVII - Page 106 - 23 Jul - The Aliens held the moon. Their first act of aggression—the first notice humanity had of their presence in the solar system—was the attack on the Lunar Base - Uzaylılar ayı ele Geçirmiş - Page 108 - 24 Jul - The infinite possibility, the unlimited and unqualified wholeness of being of the uncommitted, the nonacting, the uncarved: the being who, being nothing but himself, is everything - Page 112 - 24 Jul - Just three days before they called it off. Two days before the Tehran Conference and the U.S.-China Pact. One day after the Aliens blew up the Moon base.” - Page 113 - 24 Jul - He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. - Söylediği şey ne kadar kötü olursa olsun söyleyişi öfke içermiyordu. - Page 113 - 24 Jul - Are there really people without resentment, without hate? she wondered. People who never go cross-grained to the universe? Who recognize evil, and resist evil, and yet are utterly unaffected by it? - kötülüğü gören onu tanıyan ama ondan etkilenmeyen var olabilir mi? - Page 113 - 24 Jul - the sharecropper’s wife in Alabama and the lama in Tibet and the entomologist in Peru and the millworker in Odessa and the greengrocer in London and the goatherd in Nigeria and the old, old man sharpening a stick by a dry streambed somewhere in Australia, and all the others - işinde gücünde olan sıradan  insanları kast ediyor. - Page 114 - 24 Jul - he’s not interested in what’s true, in what is, he can’t see anything except his mind—his ideas of what ought to be.” - bir şeyin Uzmanı olanların  sorunu bu işte: uzmanlıklarına o kadar odaklılar ki Çevrede ne olup bittiğini umursamıyorlar_ ben de yapıyorum bu hatayı bazen. - Page 115 - 24 Jul - He’s found a great way to run the world without taking any responsibility for it. - Birçok politikacının ortak Ozelliği: büyük değişikliklere  yol açacak kararları, kararın sorumluluğunu almadan verebilmek - Page 121 - 25 Jul - There is nothing left. Nothing but dreams.” - Bir anlamda simülasyon teorisi gibi: aslında herşey bir hayal / simülasyon - Page 121 - 25 Jul - What does it matter whether you call it real or dreams? It’s all one—isn’t it?” - yaşam =  hayal. Hepsi bir. - Page 126 - 30 Jul - Heaven and Earth are not humane. - ne demek istemiş? dünya ve cennet ne anlamda insani değil? - Page 137 - 30 Jul - electroencephalograph - elektroansefalograf :beyindeki elektrik aktivitesini ölçen cihaz. - Page 145 - 31 Jul - But such matters seemed a small price to pay for the complete retroactive abolition of racial prejudice, and he had said nothing. - Birkaç deneme sonra ırkçılık olmayan bir dünya hayal etti Orr,Bunun bir bedeli var: örn Martin Luther King diye birisi yok dünyada ama bu da kazanıma oranla küçük bir bedel. - Page 145 - 31 Jul - every soul on earth should have a body the color of a battleship: no! - Irk ve renk ayrımcılığı olmasın derken herkes gri renk oldu bu sefer... - Page 145 - 31 Jul - That’s why she’s not here, he thought. She could not have been born gray. Her color, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her mixed nature, dark and clear right through, like Baltic amber. She could not exist in the gray people’s world. She had not been born. - Page 147 - 31 Jul - The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more - Ne kadar güçlenirse daha fazlası için iştahı o kadar artıyordu - Page 150 - 31 Jul - Dream-grief. The loss of a woman who had never existed. - Rüya acısı: hiç var olmamış birini kaybetmenin acısı - Page 150 - 31 Jul - it would be the hand-to-hands, the biggest attraction of the week except for Saturday night football. - İnsanlar artık evde oturup TV izlemiyorlar, el ele günü diye bir kavram var. Sanırım sosyal buluşma günü gibi birşey - Page 160 - 31 Jul - Self is universe - Birey evrendir - Page 185 - 7 Aug - The play of form, of being, is the dreaming of substance. Rocks have their dreams, and the earth changes … But when the mind becomes conscious, when the rate of evolution speeds up, then you have to be careful. Careful of the world. You must learn the way. You must learn the skills, the art, the limits. A conscious mind must be part of the whole, intentionally and carefully—a - rüyanın hayatın önemli bir boyutu olduğunu, hatta tamamı olduğunu söylüyor Dr. Haber'e. O nedenle Haber'in mutlaka bir uzaylıyla konuşmasını öneriyor: Onlar hayatları boyunca bir rüya dünyasında yaşamışlar aslında diyor - Page 186 - 4 days ago - World soul and so on. Prescientific synthesis. Mysticism is one approach to the nature of dreaming, or of reality, though it’s not acceptable to those willing to use reason, and able to. - Haber ise bu yaklaşıma karşı çıkıyor: "dünya ruhu kavramını kast ediyorsan bu bana yeni değil. mistisizm rüya doğasının bir yolu ya da gerçekleşme hali ama biz mantık insanlarına göre bir yaklaşım değil bu" - Page 186 - 7 Aug - You get a little help from your friends - dostlar sana yardımcı oluyor - zamano geldiğinde ihtiyacın olan desteği yakınındaki birleri (brişeyler)den alıyorsun anlamında - Page 186 - 4 days ago - Iahklu’ is too much for one person to handle alone,” George was saying, “it gets out of hand. They know what’s involved in controlling it. Or, not exactly controlling it, that’s not the right word; but keeping it where it belongs, going the right way … I don’t understand it. Maybe you will. Ask their help. Say Er’ perrehnne before you … before you press the ON button - Orr, Haber'i rüya makinasını çalıştırmadan önce Er ' perrehne demek için zorluyor. (iahklu bir kişinin baş edebileceğinden fazla oluyor diyerek - bunu neden böyle ifade ettiğini anlamadım) - Page 189 - 4 days ago - “What’s wrong,” she cried despairingly. “What’s wrong?” - heather birşeylerin ters gittiğini hissediyor. ne olduğunu çözemiyor, sorunun kendisinde olduğunu düşünüyor - Page 189 - 4 days ago - “Haber is—” George’s voice went dry for a moment. “He is dreaming,” he said. A deep, mindless terror crawled inside Heather; she ignored it.“Dreaming what? So what?”“Look out the window.” - Dr. Haber dünyayı yok edecek içerikte bir rüya görüyor - Page 191 - 4 days ago - presentiment - önsezi - Page 191 - 7 Aug - the presence of absence: an unquantifiable entity without qualities, into which all things fell and from which nothing came forth. - Page 191 - 7 Aug - the power of will, which is indeed great when exercised in the right way at the right time, - Page 199 - 4 days ago - There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.