![]() Hanging prominently “on one of the windowless walls was a big photographic mural of Mount Hood” (p. Mount Hood first appears as a concept, if not as an object, in the first paragraph of Chapter 2, when the narrator describes the office of psychiatrist Dr. So with that in mind, let’s talk about Mount Hood. Seeing how the novel approaches this symbol will doubtless make for a more coherent and fulfilling reading experience. ![]() This is especially true if the reader pays close attention to a particular symbol which crops up time and again throughout the novel. Still, while following the plot of The Lathe of Heaven may be a daunting task, it is possible, and not that challenging, to follow the novel’s thematic content. At some point, and by design, the novel’s story becomes impossible to track. Dick, and while Le Guin’s prose style remains largely unchanged, in terms of subject the work has more in common with Dick’s 1969 novel Ubik than it does with, say, Le Guin’s 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness-which is to say, it’s far more surreal than her usual, quasi-anthropological stories tend to be. ![]() The novel is often described as an homage to fellow science fiction author Philip K. Le Guin’s 1971 novel about dreaming and altered realities, it can be difficult to find one’s footing. When reading The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. ![]()
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