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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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O dear- what happened to my short & cogent response? None of the fluff-ups
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By Keri Hulme (not verified) on 11 Apr 2008 #permalink

Happiness & reason do not combine (I love Ursula Le Guin's works, am a writer. and respect
that she is a much more experienced person/writer than myself.)As soon as you are a reasoning person, you realise the world is full of pain - unwarranted, frequently unearned, and almost always undeserved pain. That's just the way it is (ask an oyster.)Reason has no part in happiness.
Joy - is another matter. I suspect that the tui and rirerire singing their hearts out in my backyard know waayyy more about joy than I - or you- ever will. Kia ora - Keri

By Keri Hulme (not verified) on 11 Apr 2008 #permalink