Sample from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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She was a handsome woman, dark with fine and well proportioned features showing no lines of age, though she must be over 40. Everything about her person was harmonious and controlled. Her voice was low, pleasant and timber. I didn't know you were here in Albany, she said, or where you were, or even whether you were. I was in the press depot, looking through new publications, picking things up for the engineering library, and I saw a book by Saba Land. Shevack, Saab, Ally. New, of course. But whose Shafik? Why does it sound so familiar? I didn't arrive at it for a minute or more. Strange, isn't it? But it didn't seem reasonable. The Shafik I knew would be only 20 not likely to be co authoring treatises and meta cosmology withs Obel. But any other Shevack would have to be even younger than 20. So I came to see a boy in the domicile said you were here. This is a shockingly understaffed clinic. I don't understand why the sin ***** don't request some more postings from the medical federation or else cut down the number of admissions. Some of these AIDS and doctors are working eight hours a day. Of course, there are people in the medical arts who actually want that. The self sacrifice impulse. Unfortunately, it doesn't lead to maximum efficiency. It was strange to find you. I would never have known you. Are you in palette? In touch. How is he? He's dead. Ah, there was no pretense of shock or grief in rule logs. Voice on Lee, a kind of dreary, accustomed nous. A bleak note. Shevack was moved by it and able to see her for a moment as a person.