Today I read Ursula Le Guin's marvellous rendition of the Tao Te Ching. I have read many renditions of this book over the years. I consider it the root wisdom text from which all others flow or derive.
In addition, it is consummately anarchistic. You can see that much of Le Guin's excellent work, especially The Left Hand of Darkness, The Lathe of Heaven and The Dispossessed are heavily influence by it.
Why don't more so-called feminists know these works? Oh, because they are too busy reading Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf because they require no thought. Oops, how not PC of me.
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