Time in "The Dispossessed," by Ursula LeGuin

I really relate and identify with LeGuin's characterization of time in this book. The physicist Shevek believes in simultaneity of time instead of "only" sequence in time, and works on theories (not either/or, but both). Most people he interacts with can't imagine simultaneity of time being "real."

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There are a lot of other quotes I would like to add, but I will leave it at that:-) The concept of time fascinates me because, even though I pay careful attention to patterns, including cause and effect or possible forms of cause and effect, I feel like everything exists as part of eternity, that everything is really occurring at once. Sometimes that feeling tends to scatter me in impractical ways.

Just an Explanation

Sometimes I haven't been editing my posts before posting them, which can be an issue because I drop words or use an adverb when I mean an adjective, and various other issues like that. Normally I love editing, but sometimes I get in moods where it's stressful to think about writing at all. I get something in my head I can't move past until I've tried to translate it into concrete written/typed words. Often that results in me compromising and writing up a post quickly so I can mentally move forward, but there are scattered errors. I'm going to try and get back into editing regularly because I don't like having tons of errors in my writing and I want people to understand me. Nobody commented on the issue, I've just been going back and editing my posts days later recently, and I was doing that again today, so I thought I would mention it.