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Betrayals



"On the planet 0 there has not been a war for five thou-

sand years," she read, "and on Gethen there has

never been a war." She stopped reading, to rest her

eyes and because she was trying to train herself to

read slowly, not gobble words down in chunks the

way Tikuli gulped his food. "There has never been a

war": in her mind the words stood clear and bright,

surrounded by and sinking into an infinite, dark,

soft incredulity. What would that world be, a world

without war? It would be the real world- Peace was

the true life, the life of working and learning and

bringing up children to work and learn. War, which

devoured work, learning, and children, was the

denial of reality. But my people, she thought, know

only how to deny. Bom in the dark shadow of power

misused, we set peace outside our world, a guiding

and unattainable light. All we know to do is fight.

Any peace one of us can make in our life is only a



FOUR WAYS TO FORGIVENESS