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[ursula]

For all your metaphysical criticism, one can't help thinking you are very like the younger Ged: brilliant, confident, arrogant, and impatient with the usual bureaucracies of education. In fact, if I were you I would find it almost impossible not to read Wizard of Earthsea as a tract on the way people like me will inevitably come to grief, an argument which, naturally, inspires resentment.

I wonder also if the solipsistic alternative is less attractive to those of us who are naturally unperceptive: when one walks into walls, furniture, etc. which one did not believe existed on a regular basis, one is forced to accept either that one's will is very weak or that reality is very present, and I personally find it easier to believe in reality than to believe I am not strong-minded.