"If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid."

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About Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin was an American novelist and essayist known for speculative fiction and literary fantasy. Her major works include A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness.

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