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Always Coming Home
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Always Coming Home is a 1985 Pastoral Science Fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin describing an After the End future.The civilization we know has collapsed. The world has barely any resources left, the ecology is in shambles, vast parts of the land are polluted and poisonous. But a few people still live there. The population is miniscule compared to the pre-catastrophe era, and a good proportion of the babies are stillborn due to genetic diseases. The people accept this situation.The book is mostly centered around the Kesh People who live in nine towns in the Valley of River Na, what we nowadays know as the Napa County, California, near Mount Saint Helena (a sacred location to them). They are a simple, utopian society with low population, technology limited to the level they can maintain comfortably, and no government in the sense we know it.There is still Internet available. Surviving AIs maintain the network for people in exchange for data about the people. The AIs also maintain research, space infrastructure, probes launched to study the universe — all to the extent that it doesn't interfere with the ecosystem.It is largely an example of worldbuilding, containing descriptions of the Kesh culture, their language, as well as their folklore. The original edition even had a cassette included, with songs and poems in the Kesh language. Currently, these are available for purchase both in digital form and vinyl records.In 2019, an expanded edition of the book came out, containing both new material (such as the Kesh language syntax in addition to the glossary) and a number of essays explaining the backstory and Le Guin's lectures on related subjects. | |
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Arc Symbol | |
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Arc Symbol: Heyiya-if, a hinged spiral reflecting the world view as described above, with the left arm representing Earth and the right Sky. The Kesh include it not only in things like their drawings; their cities are laid according to it, with the left arm containing living houses (in case of the largest town, several arms were needed), the right arm, the heyimas (multifunctional public structures), and the hinge being some sort of spring or waterfall. | |
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Non-Heteronormative Society | |
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Non-Heteronormative Society: Same-gender relationships are described as being treated equivalently to opposite-gender relationships among the Kesh. This is contrasted to other groups, particularly the Dayao. | |
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Rape as Drama | |
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Rape as Drama: The Miller raping a woman (a case of incest) is treated as one. Not so much in other cases described: both Stone Telling and Shamsha fell pregnant from a rape, and Shamsha didn't even see it as something serious enough to tell others, nor saw a reason to abort the child. The Rape, Pillage, and Burn actions of the Dayao, on the other hand, aren't taken lightly. | |
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Manly Men Can Hunt | |
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Manly Men Can Hunt: For the Dayao, a man's rite of passage involves killing a condor or at least a buzzard. Inverted with the Kesh: hunting is for young boys, not adults. | |
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Post-Peak Oil | |
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Post-Peak Oil: To a degree which causes a lot of problems when the Dayao people try to fuel the bombers they build. | |
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Klingon Scientists Get No Respect | |
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Klingon Scientists Get No Respect: The people of the Valley are highly suspicious toward Millers, which includes all people working with advanced machinery and electricity. These people also don't have a House assigned to them as a group, which means no one protecting them in case of a screw up. | |
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Alternative Calendar | |
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Alternative Calendar: The Kesh People don't have one in the usual sense, although they keep track of certain multi-year cycles for the sake of things like wine age. | |
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Cosy Catastrophe | |
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Cosy Catastrophe: Despite all the past and residual damage to Earth, people seem to be quite happy (except for the Dayao). | |
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Mutual Kill | |
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Mutual Kill: The evening stories about the Coyote and the humans have the war general's sons kill each other. | |
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I Owe You My Life | |
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I Owe You My Life: Inverted in the Valley, at least with medicine. A doctor who saves a person's life is considered to be the one in debt, being akin to a parent now. One doctor was forced to swap towns due to all the debts in the old place. In the new one, he concentrated on animals and terminal patients. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Pandora talking to the librarian is the most prominent example. | |
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Adam and Eve Plot | |
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Adam and Eve Plot: Subverted in one of the creation myths told. One world did rise from a brother and sister who were the only ones left from the previous one, but since it was incest, the new people were mad and destroyed themselves eventually. | |
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Tricked into Escaping | |
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Tricked into Escaping: The imprisoned son of The Condor was killed after trying to escape due to being betrayed by the people who pretended to help him. | |
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New Child Left Behind | |
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New Child Left Behind: Stone Telling was such a child, daughter to a military commander passing through the Valley. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: In-Universe. A particular genre in the Valley is a type of play where the author has only written some twenty lines around which any troupe can build a play of their own length and to their own taste. | |
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Prophetic Fallacy | |
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Prophetic Fallacy: Stone Telling has a vision at one point of her father's corpse. When he shows up later, she believes her vision to be false, but later, when he helps her escape the Dayao people, she realizes it must have been a vision of the future. | |
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Dirty Old Man | |
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Dirty Old Man: Pandora describes old Kesh men showing off for one another by dancing the Moon (an annual orgy festival). | |
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Ditching the Dub Names | |
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Ditching the Dub Names: In most of the book, the Kesh people's meaningful names are translated into English. At a few points, Le Guin broke with her own convention to show the reader what the names were supposed to actually sound like. | |
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Offing the Offspring | |
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Offing the Offspring: The Dayao ruler imprisons and later executes his son for disagreeing with him. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Terter Abhao for North Owl. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical: The Dayao attempt to build a few airplanes as a Superweapon Surprise. In the Post-Peak Oil setting, they are forced to resort to biofuel production, and it turns out the whole food production of their city (built in a spot rather bad for agriculture at that) is insufficient to provide enough, even without accounting for, you know, the people's need to eat. | |
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He Who Fights Monsters | |
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He Who Fights Monsters: For the Kesh, the mere fact that some youngsters have decided to replicate the Dayao idea of warriors and armies was extremely shameful for them. | |
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Worldbuilding | |
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Worldbuilding: A very thorough example. There are maps of both the Na Valley and a good portion of the rest of America, there are songs, poetry, folklore. Even food recipes. | |
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After the End | |
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After the End: With a good amount of the world poisoned and beaches full of styrofoam. | |
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La Résistance | |
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La Résistance: The people opposing the Dayao rule, both from conquered territories and commoners of the city. | |
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You Need to Get Laid | |
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You Need to Get Laid: When Stone Telling is sick in the Dayao city, a doctor says it is nothing a husband won't cure, in a matter very similar to old discussions about female hysteria. | |
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Solar Punk | |
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Solar Punk: The Kesh are an agrarian and foraging society, but they use quite a few solar panels. | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: The Kesh have electricity and solar panels, a single steam train (pulled by horses when the weather is too dry to risk the engine starting a fire), internet access via what are described as foldable high-resolution electric ink displays, and yet a lot of their technology and culture are at the level of pre-Columbian natives. | |
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Incest Standards Are Relative | |
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Incest Standards Are Relative: All the Kesh people belong to one of five "Houses", determined by the mother's House. Sex with a member of the same house is a strict taboo. One story describes a man who raped a woman and immediately killed himself, with the author commenting that in the original, untranslated story, the way he addressed the woman makes it obvious from the start they are from the same House. | |
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Humans Are Morons | |
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Humans Are Morons: Our society, to the extent that it is remembered, is viewed as madmen. | |
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Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas | |
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Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas: Played with a lot. The Kesh have very different conceptual divisions and metaphors than both the readers and the other cultures in the setting; which gives abundant opportunities for extreme misunderstandings — such as Terter Abhao, with Kesh as his second language, saying something that gets heard as both "you and I should go on a short walk" and "I need to depart with the army for years" depending on who is listening. | |
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Animal Theme Naming | |
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Animal Theme Naming: The first names given to girls are often those of birds. | |
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Population Control | |
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Population Control: The Kesh don't like large families. More than two kids is not appreciated (presumably this might be different in case of a population drop). Also enforced by the worldbuilding: accumulated environmental poisons have caused high rates of infertility, miscarriage, and death in early childhood. | |
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Teen Pregnancy | |
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Teen Pregnancy: Common among the Dayao, but very rare among the Kesh. Abortion is mandatory for them before eighteen, while a teenaged father might be mocked to the point of suicide. | |
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California Collapse | |
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California Collapse: Not quite a collapse, but a lot of today's structures are visible under the water, and it appears that Northern California has flooded. | |
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Defenestrate and Berate | |
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Defenestrate and Berate: One of the Kesh forms of divorce is a woman taking her husband's things out of the house. | |
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Of the People | |
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Of the People: The word "Dayao" means "One People", meaning the people who worship the god they call "One". They consider humans who don't follow One to be animals rather than people. | |
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Loving a Shadow | |
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Loving a Shadow: This is how Stone Telling views her mother's love toward Terter Abhao. She never knew his people's culture, so how could she know the kind of man he really was? | |
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Self-Disposing Villain | |
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Self-Disposing Villain: The Dayao collapse due to inability to maintain their Awesome, but Impractical bomber force. | |
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Humans Are White | |
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Humans Are White: Averted. Some people in the Valley do have white skin, and tradition claims them to be of supernatural origin (half-mermaids, basically). | |
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Mistaken for Gay | |
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Mistaken for Gay: That was one of the possibilities discussed by the Valley people when they saw the Dayao army — for them, it was unimaginable that such a large group of people would contain no women. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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Fantastic Racism: The Dayao view all other people as non-human, fit only for conquest as per their religion. They are doing their best not to dwell upon cases when their commoner men (who are humans according to said religion) are ordered around by noble women (who aren't) | |
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Hiding Behind the Language Barrier | |
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Hiding Behind the Language Barrier: In "The Trouble with the Cotton People", the traders bringing cotton to the valley claim their captain is the only person capable of speaking the language of the Cotton People, and speaks no other. They are all Cotton People. The "captain" is some mentally challenged guy they found who cannot speak properly at all. | |
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Those Wily Coyotes | |
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Those Wily Coyotes: The female coyote is the chief Trickster Archetype in the Kesh folklore. | |
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Royal Blood | |
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Royal Blood: It is stated that when the Condor's son was to be executed, no one dared to raise a hand against him. Instead, they gave him the chair and said it was electricity that killed him. | |
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In the Local Tongue | |
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In the Local Tongue: One of the recorded Kesh songs sounds quite mystical and impressive, fitting with others in the album. Translated into English, it is the singers quite explicitly propositioning someone for sex. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_60e2ec3e | type |
Artificial Intelligence | |
Always Coming Home / int_60e2ec3e | comment |
Artificial Intelligence: The Exchange is operated by a solar-system-spanning network of AIs that otherwise exist entirely separately from humans. | |
Always Coming Home / int_60e2ec3e | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_60e2ec3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_60e2ec3e | |
Always Coming Home / int_61c7d589 | type |
Bigger Is Better in Bed | |
Always Coming Home / int_61c7d589 | comment |
Bigger Is Better in Bed: One humorous story has a girl impressed when she sees a particular guy peeing. | |
Always Coming Home / int_61c7d589 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_61c7d589 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_61c7d589 | |
Always Coming Home / int_646b9cc8 | type |
Organ Autonomy | |
Always Coming Home / int_646b9cc8 | comment |
Organ Autonomy: One poem has a penis tired of constant activity cutting itself off and running away. | |
Always Coming Home / int_646b9cc8 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_646b9cc8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_646b9cc8 | |
Always Coming Home / int_6654b17b | type |
Facial Horror | |
Always Coming Home / int_6654b17b | comment |
Facial Horror: Withy walked with a mask ever since her encounter with a bear. | |
Always Coming Home / int_6654b17b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home / int_6654b17b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_6654b17b | |
Always Coming Home / int_66755d29 | type |
Author Avatar | |
Always Coming Home / int_66755d29 | comment |
Author Avatar: While she never appears, Pandora mentions that she got much of her information from a Kesh woman called Little Bear Woman, which is an English translation of the Latin name "Ursula". | |
Always Coming Home / int_66755d29 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_66755d29 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_66755d29 | |
Always Coming Home / int_66f1ee39 | type |
Fantastic Anthropologist | |
Always Coming Home / int_66f1ee39 | comment |
Fantastic Anthropologist: Much of the book is structured like an anthropologist's notes on the Kesh people. But in a couple of segments, Le Guin inverts the plot device and provides Kesh perspectives on then-current real humans. The Kesh think "they all had their heads on backwards". | |
Always Coming Home / int_66f1ee39 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_66f1ee39 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_66f1ee39 | |
Always Coming Home / int_6a49268 | type |
"Just So" Story | |
Always Coming Home / int_6a49268 | comment |
"Just So" Story: One explaining why a certain family in one of the towns has white skin. | |
Always Coming Home / int_6a49268 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_6a49268 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_6a49268 | |
Always Coming Home / int_6b898eb8 | type |
Post-Apocalyptic Dog | |
Always Coming Home / int_6b898eb8 | comment |
Post-Apocalyptic Dog: A frequent trouble in the Valley. Ironically, domesticated dogs mainly serve the purpose of protecting against those. No child ever goes into the forest without at least one. | |
Always Coming Home / int_6b898eb8 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_6b898eb8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_6b898eb8 | |
Always Coming Home / int_6d332aea | type |
Driven to Suicide | |
Always Coming Home / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide: It is mentioned that a teenaged father in the Valley might be mocked to the point of exile or suicide. In "the Miller", the titular character jumps into his mill's machinery once he realizes what he did. | |
Always Coming Home / int_6d332aea | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_6d332aea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_6d332aea | |
Always Coming Home / int_6f23e04e | type |
Thank Your Prey | |
Always Coming Home / int_6f23e04e | comment |
Thank Your Prey: It is considered necessary for a person to sing a song after killing an animal on a hunt. A shortened version (a single line) is required even for butchers. A supershort version (one word) is mandatory even when swatting a fly or picking a flower. | |
Always Coming Home / int_6f23e04e | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_6f23e04e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_6f23e04e | |
Always Coming Home / int_6f44042b | type |
The Immodest Orgasm | |
Always Coming Home / int_6f44042b | comment |
The Immodest Orgasm: The teller of the Visionary's story talks at one point about her aunt and uncle making a lot of noise in their lovemaking every night. | |
Always Coming Home / int_6f44042b | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_6f44042b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_6f44042b | |
Always Coming Home / int_6f550365 | type |
Rite-of-Passage Name Change | |
Always Coming Home / int_6f550365 | comment |
Rite-of-Passage Name Change: The people of the Warrior Lodge took different names upon joining it. All people in the Valley changed their names over the course of their lives if they lived long enough, but the exact conditions aren't described. | |
Always Coming Home / int_6f550365 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_6f550365 | featureConfidence |
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Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_6f550365 | |
Always Coming Home / int_71152dd | type |
One Dialogue, Two Conversations | |
Always Coming Home / int_71152dd | comment |
One Dialogue, Two Conversations: The conversations between Willow and Terter Abhao often come out as that, due to their different views on both property and behavior (plus Terter's poor grasp of the Kesh language). | |
Always Coming Home / int_71152dd | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_71152dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_71152dd | |
Always Coming Home / int_7a19a69b | type |
Not Quite the Right Thing | |
Always Coming Home / int_7a19a69b | comment |
Not Quite the Right Thing: This is how the people of the Valley viewed four men who spent a month carrying home four corpses of their friends who died in a poisoned land. Nice, but the effort is excessive. | |
Always Coming Home / int_7a19a69b | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_7a19a69b | featureConfidence |
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Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_7a19a69b | |
Always Coming Home / int_7b5c69c8 | type |
Dirty Old Woman | |
Always Coming Home / int_7b5c69c8 | comment |
Dirty Old Woman: Marigold, who used to dance the Moon almost until her death, usually picking some young boy afraid to approach a woman he actually liked. | |
Always Coming Home / int_7b5c69c8 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_7b5c69c8 | featureConfidence |
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Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_7b5c69c8 | |
Always Coming Home / int_7c46c734 | type |
Common Tongue | |
Always Coming Home / int_7c46c734 | comment |
Common Tongue: TOK, the language of the City of Mind's databases. Humans all around the world learn it in order to access the City's information, and so they are also able to use it as a common tongue across human groups. | |
Always Coming Home / int_7c46c734 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_7c46c734 | featureConfidence |
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Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_7c46c734 | |
Always Coming Home / int_7c77081d | type |
Language Equals Thought | |
Always Coming Home / int_7c77081d | comment |
Language Equals Thought: Actually averts the common mistakes. When some Kesh people grow fascinated with the Dayao idea of "armies", they have no trouble about having no words: they simply adopt the foreign ones. Likewise, it is entirely possible to say that a person is wealthy in the modern sense of possessing much instead of giving much, it just won't be seen as a positive trait. However, the Kesh grammar allows for no means to express the idea of owning a living being; any attempt to say it will come across as a Russian Reversal-style comedy. | |
Always Coming Home / int_7c77081d | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_7c77081d | featureConfidence |
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Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_7c77081d | |
Always Coming Home / int_7e851477 | type |
Balancing Death's Books | |
Always Coming Home / int_7e851477 | comment |
Balancing Death's Books: The Brave Man is the story of a person who offered to die instead of his wife after she had a very difficult miscarriage. | |
Always Coming Home / int_7e851477 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home / int_7e851477 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_7e851477 | |
Always Coming Home / int_7f152e56 | type |
Our Mermaids Are Different | |
Always Coming Home / int_7f152e56 | comment |
Our Mermaids Are Different: "Shahugoten" tells the story of a girl who was born part fish and tended to fluctuate in that regard. | |
Always Coming Home / int_7f152e56 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_7f152e56 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_7f152e56 | |
Always Coming Home / int_7fc67b2b | type |
Disinherited Child | |
Always Coming Home / int_7fc67b2b | comment |
Disinherited Child: The Condor to his son, to the point of imprisoning and then killing him. | |
Always Coming Home / int_7fc67b2b | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_7fc67b2b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_7fc67b2b | |
Always Coming Home / int_8387bb18 | type |
Good Girls Avoid Abortion | |
Always Coming Home / int_8387bb18 | comment |
Good Girls Avoid Abortion: The Dayao nobles would never consider an abortion, but the commoners are stated to have them more often than not. Definitely averted for the Kesh people, who are a complete pro-choice society (except for girls younger than eighteen, who are never allowed to become mothers). Stone Telling mentions having an abortion after a case of Marital Rape License by her Dayao husband. | |
Always Coming Home / int_8387bb18 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_8387bb18 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_8387bb18 | |
Always Coming Home / int_853e45d1 | type |
Mistaken for Pregnant | |
Always Coming Home / int_853e45d1 | comment |
Mistaken for Pregnant: In "Dangerous People", Shamsha considers some action by Hwette to be a sign she is pregnant, but Hwette denies any such thing. | |
Always Coming Home / int_853e45d1 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_853e45d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_853e45d1 | |
Always Coming Home / int_87ee897 | type |
Crazy Cultural Comparison | |
Always Coming Home / int_87ee897 | comment |
Crazy Cultural Comparison: A lot of the aspects of the Kesh culture are alien to us, most prominently their attitude to property and wealth. When Stone Telling describes the Condor people, with customs closer to a western society (a highly conservative one), she treats them as madmen. | |
Always Coming Home / int_87ee897 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_87ee897 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_87ee897 | |
Always Coming Home / int_88f45711 | type |
Space Amish | |
Always Coming Home / int_88f45711 | comment |
Space Amish: The Kesh principle of only using technology on a level they can easily maintain on their own is actually quite close to the Amish views. | |
Always Coming Home / int_88f45711 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_88f45711 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_88f45711 | |
Always Coming Home / int_8a1bb4eb | type |
Conlang | |
Always Coming Home / int_8a1bb4eb | comment |
Conlang: The language of Kesh has a considerable vocabulary given. The expanded edition also adds the syntax rules. | |
Always Coming Home / int_8a1bb4eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home / int_8a1bb4eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_8a1bb4eb | |
Always Coming Home / int_8c1ad82f | type |
Proud Warrior Race Guy | |
Always Coming Home / int_8c1ad82f | comment |
Proud Warrior Race Guy: The Dayao are that. Causes Terter Abhao a lot of trouble with Willow, for whom all his achievements and heroics are meaningless or childish. | |
Always Coming Home / int_8c1ad82f | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_8c1ad82f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_8c1ad82f | |
Always Coming Home / int_8ccfcf8e | type |
Horny Sailors | |
Always Coming Home / int_8ccfcf8e | comment |
Horny Sailors: "The Trouble with the Cotton People" has the teller claiming he had a lot of problems with that at one point during his journey. Relief was problematic, since the Kesh people tend to be careful about the possibility of STD, which are very rare among them, but not in other places. | |
Always Coming Home / int_8ccfcf8e | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_8ccfcf8e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_8ccfcf8e | |
Always Coming Home / int_8d718b9e | type |
Bears Are Bad News | |
Always Coming Home / int_8d718b9e | comment |
Bears Are Bad News: Like the story of Withy, who got clawed by one. Bears are normally in the House of non-game animals and thus cannot be hunted, but a bear that has attacked humans is seen as having submitted to be killed. | |
Always Coming Home / int_8d718b9e | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_8d718b9e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_8d718b9e | |
Always Coming Home / int_8edd35b | type |
Ecocidal Antagonist | |
Always Coming Home / int_8edd35b | comment |
Ecocidal Antagonist: The Kesh view the people of our times as these in general, represented in their culture by Head Turned Backwards bogeymen. They can understand that all the ecological damage to Earth was caused by human action, but cannot understand it as a lack of foresight, instead viewing them as the deliberate actions of madmen. | |
Always Coming Home / int_8edd35b | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_8edd35b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_8edd35b | |
Always Coming Home / int_8f900ccd | type |
Overly Long Name | |
Always Coming Home / int_8f900ccd | comment |
Overly Long Name: The houses in the towns tend to have long names which hardly anyone ever uses. | |
Always Coming Home / int_8f900ccd | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_8f900ccd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_8f900ccd | |
Always Coming Home / int_9203bf6 | type |
Arc Number | |
Always Coming Home / int_9203bf6 | comment |
Arc Number: The Kesh divide everything into Nine Houses. The Five Houses of Earth represent corporeal things like the Earth itself, living human beings, and domesticated plants and animals. The Four Houses of the Sky include things like generic groups, the dead, the unborn, and the fictional. All three numbers are therefore frequent in the book. | |
Always Coming Home / int_9203bf6 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_9203bf6 | featureConfidence |
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Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_9203bf6 | |
Always Coming Home / int_932da128 | type |
Monster Clown | |
Always Coming Home / int_932da128 | comment |
Monster Clown: The White Clowns are the Bogeymen of the Kesh, appearing around the winter solstice festival. | |
Always Coming Home / int_932da128 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_932da128 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_932da128 | |
Always Coming Home / int_9620c3a1 | type |
God-Emperor | |
Always Coming Home / int_9620c3a1 | comment |
God-Emperor: How the Dayao view their leader. | |
Always Coming Home / int_9620c3a1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home / int_9620c3a1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_9620c3a1 | |
Always Coming Home / int_973d220f | type |
Never My Fault | |
Always Coming Home / int_973d220f | comment |
Never My Fault: Among the Dayao, the superiors and their orders are never at fault. Only the ones carrying the orders out are. | |
Always Coming Home / int_973d220f | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_973d220f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_973d220f | |
Always Coming Home / int_97d79b7f | type |
Kindly Vet | |
Always Coming Home / int_97d79b7f | comment |
Kindly Vet: Striffen from "The Visionary" is described as one, healing horses and cattle and in some kind of empathic connection with them. | |
Always Coming Home / int_97d79b7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home / int_97d79b7f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_97d79b7f | |
Always Coming Home / int_9c04866f | type |
Head Turned Backwards | |
Always Coming Home / int_9c04866f | comment |
Head Turned Backwards: The most feared bogeyman of the Kesh is the otherwise human-looking "Backward-Head," a literalized metaphor of our current civilization and its complete craziness which ruined the ecosystem. Backwards-Heads thrive on poison and are driven by irrational fear and malice, because it makes no sense to the inhabitants of the Valley for anyone to cause that much lasting damage under any other circumstances. There's also the Wry Neck, a White Clown role intended to invoke the same fear in order to scare kids. | |
Always Coming Home / int_9c04866f | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_9c04866f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_9c04866f | |
Always Coming Home / int_9cbf01d6 | type |
Stay in the Kitchen | |
Always Coming Home / int_9cbf01d6 | comment |
Stay in the Kitchen: The Dayao attitude on noblewomen is for them to be nothing but childbearers (although a noble concubine can be taken for pleasure exclusively) and never leave the house. This is a sharp contrast from the Kesh. There, if anything, women are the ones with the higher status. | |
Always Coming Home / int_9cbf01d6 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_9cbf01d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_9cbf01d6 | |
Always Coming Home / int_9d5dad72 | type |
Blaming the Victim | |
Always Coming Home / int_9d5dad72 | comment |
Blaming the Victim: By the standards of Dayao, any woman without a proper escort is fair game who is asking for it. | |
Always Coming Home / int_9d5dad72 | featureApplicability |
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Always Coming Home / int_9d5dad72 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_9d5dad72 | |
Always Coming Home / int_9f63d4f1 | type |
Our Vampires Are Different | |
Always Coming Home / int_9f63d4f1 | comment |
Our Vampires Are Different: "Dira" describes a tick demon which used its powers to enter a household under a human guise, where it ate all the food, making the humans starve nearly to death (it was stopped while two of the three people were still alive) while it literally bloated with their blood. | |
Always Coming Home / int_9f63d4f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home / int_9f63d4f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_9f63d4f1 | |
Always Coming Home / int_a0671da | type |
Tragic Stillbirth | |
Always Coming Home / int_a0671da | comment |
Tragic Stillbirth: Normally averted, since due to the leftover pollution, miscarriages and stillbirths are very common in the Valley. There are, however, poems in the extended edition which are sung in case of a stillbirth, and in "The Brave Man", the main plot is a woman being sick due to a very painful miscarriage. | |
Always Coming Home / int_a0671da | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Always Coming Home / int_a0671da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_a0671da | |
Always Coming Home / int_a122bf2f | type |
Blind Seer | |
Always Coming Home / int_a122bf2f | comment |
Blind Seer: Cave, the old woman from the story of Stone Telling. | |
Always Coming Home / int_a122bf2f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home / int_a122bf2f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_a122bf2f | |
Always Coming Home / int_a1b141f4 | type |
My God, What Have I Done? | |
Always Coming Home / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: In "The Miller", the titular character, after raping a woman he was obsessed with (an incestuous relationship, to boot), jumps into his watermill's wheel. | |
Always Coming Home / int_a1b141f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home / int_a1b141f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_a1b141f4 | |
Always Coming Home / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
Always Coming Home / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: "Chandi", a play which has a man's fortune reversed like that of Job (a comparison actually made in some editions). | |
Always Coming Home / int_a4c37cbe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home / int_a4c37cbe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_a4c37cbe | |
Always Coming Home / int_a73cef88 | type |
Virginity Flag | |
Always Coming Home / int_a73cef88 | comment |
Virginity Flag: As a variant, taking on a sexual partner is the stage where a person starts wearing dyed clothing. | |
Always Coming Home / int_a73cef88 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home / int_a73cef88 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_a73cef88 | |
Always Coming Home / int_a8c431a1 | type |
Blinded by the Sun | |
Always Coming Home / int_a8c431a1 | comment |
Blinded by the Sun: The story of Junco, who spent a day staring at the sun trying to learn the secrets of the universe. The doctors only managed to restore his peripheral vision. | |
Always Coming Home / int_a8c431a1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home / int_a8c431a1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_a8c431a1 | |
Always Coming Home / int_aabe2fb | type |
Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
Always Coming Home / int_aabe2fb | comment |
Deliberate Values Dissonance: Kesh attitudes to sex, property and gender are considerably different from ours (wealth, for example, is determined by generosity instead of property). | |
Always Coming Home / int_aabe2fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home / int_aabe2fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_aabe2fb | |
Always Coming Home / int_ac0f4761 | type |
Future Imperfect | |
Always Coming Home / int_ac0f4761 | comment |
Future Imperfect: The data about the past is actually all there in the AI City of Mind's Exchange, but no one bothers to dig it up. Also deliberately invoked by Kesh librarians and archivists, who regularly throw out old books and scrolls that nobody is using much anymore. | |
Always Coming Home / int_ac0f4761 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home / int_ac0f4761 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_ac0f4761 | |
Always Coming Home / int_acbd5c12 | type |
Perfect Pacifist People | |
Always Coming Home / int_acbd5c12 | comment |
Perfect Pacifist People: Subverted. The Kesh war, but only the teenagers, and adults consider war to be immature and foolish. They still have incidents of interpersonal violence. | |
Always Coming Home / int_acbd5c12 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Always Coming Home / int_acbd5c12 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_acbd5c12 | |
Always Coming Home / int_ad3e13c5 | type |
The Loins Sleep Tonight | |
Always Coming Home / int_ad3e13c5 | comment |
The Loins Sleep Tonight: Stone Telling mentions that when she and her Dayao husband decided to have a child, it took them quite a bit of time due to the latter being both older and weary due to his work. | |
Always Coming Home / int_ad3e13c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home / int_ad3e13c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_ad3e13c5 | |
Always Coming Home / int_af7d483f | type |
Dreaming of Things to Come | |
Always Coming Home / int_af7d483f | comment |
Dreaming of Things to Come: Stone Telling described a vision she had of her father's corpse. When he shows up later, she believes her vision to be false, but later, when they must part ways as she escapes the Dayao people, she realizes a chance for it to come true will come soon. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_affc0c98 | type |
Significant Wardrobe Shift | |
Always Coming Home / int_affc0c98 | comment |
Significant Wardrobe Shift: A person starts wearing proper clothing (instead of just covering the essentials) at puberty, and dyed clothing upon taking on a sexual partner. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_b5051d28 | type |
Playing Doctor | |
Always Coming Home / int_b5051d28 | comment |
Playing Doctor: It is mentioned sexual games are actually encouraged among the Valley kids, so that by the age of ten, they tend to be well knowledgeable about contraceptives. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_b5914444 | type |
Noodle Implements | |
Always Coming Home / int_b5914444 | comment |
Noodle Implements: One of the texts given is from a paper scrap titled "A list of things that will be needed four days from now". | |
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Always Coming Home / int_b5914444 | |
Always Coming Home / int_b5f7c29b | type |
Star-Crossed Lovers | |
Always Coming Home / int_b5f7c29b | comment |
Starcrossed Lovers: Terter Abhao and Willow, with him being a military commander from a society with very different values. The woman and the Wild Man from "At the Springs of Orlu". The Wedding Night at Chukulmas has the ghosts of two people who died before their wedding. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_b5f7c29b | |
Always Coming Home / int_b7920c43 | type |
Lost in Translation | |
Always Coming Home / int_b7920c43 | comment |
Lost in Translation: A lot of aspects in Kesh language are hard to translate to us. Prominently, a double case is Stone Telling complaining that she has to use "reversal words" which sound ridiculous to Kesh speakers in order to properly describe the Dayao culture. However, the differences in question are things like status and wealth being determined by possessions rather than generosity, a difficulty completely lost to modern Western society, which is closer to the Dayao in that respect. The footnotes and the back of the book elaborate on this problem at length. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_b9ee4f2b | type |
From Cataclysm to Myth | |
Always Coming Home / int_b9ee4f2b | comment |
From Cataclysm to Myth: The Kesh are aware the world has been damaged by the actions of past humans, but aren't exactly interested in knowing more. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_b9ee4f2b | |
Always Coming Home / int_ba26aa0d | type |
Teeny Weenie | |
Always Coming Home / int_ba26aa0d | comment |
Teeny Weenie: At the end of "A Bay Laurel Song", the person's penis runs away, so he now grows himself a new one but... isn't very far along. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_ba26aa0d | |
Always Coming Home / int_bb7ae292 | type |
Child by Rape | |
Always Coming Home / int_bb7ae292 | comment |
Child by Rape: Hwette from Dangerous People is revealed to be one, courtesy of her mother's boyfriend, who didn't take the breakup lightly. Averted by Stone Telling, who claims she did an abortion after her Dayao husband invoked Marital Rape Licence once. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_bb7ae292 | |
Always Coming Home / int_bc848be9 | type |
Intangible Time Travel | |
Always Coming Home / int_bc848be9 | comment |
Intangible Time Travel: In "The Visionary", a vision of some strange people is described by the narrator. A footnote explains these were likely native Californian tribes which were forcibly relocated in the mid-nineteenth century. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_bc848be9 | |
Always Coming Home / int_bcba27a1 | type |
Putting on the Reich | |
Always Coming Home / int_bcba27a1 | comment |
Putting on the Reich: The Dayao. Warlike conquerors, with youth parading through the street. An Armchair Military Glorious Leader who is considered infallible and accepts no criticism, punishing anyone disagreeing. Attempts to take on every neighbor in sight instead of concentrating on one at a time. Racist ideology which considers them alone true humans. Obsession with Awesome, but Impractical superweapons at the expense of regular military. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_bcba27a1 | |
Always Coming Home / int_be8cb2da | type |
Missing Episode | |
Always Coming Home / int_be8cb2da | comment |
Missing Episode: In-Universe, the novel "Dangerous People" is missing its ending due to having been damaged in transit. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_be8cb2da | |
Always Coming Home / int_bf7030c4 | type |
The Meaning of Life | |
Always Coming Home / int_bf7030c4 | comment |
The Meaning of Life: Bodo from "The Shouting Man, the Red Woman, and the Bears" asks a lot of questions on the subject. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_c2393191 | type |
Show Within a Show | |
Always Coming Home / int_c2393191 | comment |
Show Within a Show: Anything from poems a few lines in length to a novel (a single chapter in the regular edition, almost complete in the expanded version). | |
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Always Coming Home / int_c2393191 | |
Always Coming Home / int_c3308d09 | type |
Blood for Mortar | |
Always Coming Home / int_c3308d09 | comment |
Blood for Mortar: Some people in the Valley (and everyone in two of the towns) mixed some of a slaughtered animal's blood with clay, to be used later for making bricks. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_c92a568 | type |
Family Extermination | |
Always Coming Home / int_c92a568 | comment |
Family Extermination: After The Condor executes his son, he also executes his wives, concubines, children and slaves. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_c92a568 | |
Always Coming Home / int_c96e8b3 | type |
Baby Language | |
Always Coming Home / int_c96e8b3 | comment |
Baby Language: Stone Telling remarks that as they went back home, her toddler daughter communicated with other toddlers in towns along the way far better than she herself did. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_c96e8b3 | |
Always Coming Home / int_cb1a6514 | type |
Country Mouse | |
Always Coming Home / int_cb1a6514 | comment |
Country Mouse: Stone Telling describes feeling off to the point of sickness in the Condor city. The Dayao people themselves are, according to her, also an example. They used to be nomadic people, and are still happiest when outside their city. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_cb1a6514 | |
Always Coming Home / int_ce6f28b5 | type |
Pastoral Science Fiction | |
Always Coming Home / int_ce6f28b5 | comment |
Pastoral Science Fiction: The Kesh have access to technology, but a lot of their food comes from foraging and low-tech agriculture. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_ce6f28b5 | |
Always Coming Home / int_cf92fea8 | type |
Cassandra Truth | |
Always Coming Home / int_cf92fea8 | comment |
Cassandra Truth: The Condor leader ignores and even punishes anyone who tries to tell him his armies cannot take on the whole world by themselves. That includes his own son. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_cf92fea8 | |
Always Coming Home / int_d1ebedfb | type |
Armchair Military | |
Always Coming Home / int_d1ebedfb | comment |
Armchair Military: The Dayao leader never left his palace, yet everyone was expected to follow his orders without questions, including in military campaigns. It works about as well as it sounds. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_d250df04 | type |
Creation Myth | |
Always Coming Home / int_d250df04 | comment |
Creation Myth: A few are told by people in the book. It is unclear how much of it is tradition and how much is made up on the spot. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_d250df04 | |
Always Coming Home / int_d2aa7d09 | type |
Littlest Cancer Patient | |
Always Coming Home / int_d2aa7d09 | comment |
Littlest Cancer Patient: "The Visionary" has the narrator marrying a man who has two sons, the younger one being vedet (a terminal illness akin to Alzheimer in symptoms but much more painful). | |
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Always Coming Home / int_d2aa7d09 | |
Always Coming Home / int_d397657d | type |
Hoist by His Own Petard | |
Always Coming Home / int_d397657d | comment |
Hoist by His Own Petard: In "Old Women Hating", the woman living upstairs attempts to set fire to the neighbor below by pouring down oil and igniting it. She is the only casualty of the fire. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_d397657d | |
Always Coming Home / int_d4e9de59 | type |
Dreadful Musician | |
Always Coming Home / int_d4e9de59 | comment |
Dreadful Musician: "A Vaunting" and "A response" are two mock poems, with one side claiming their musicians are wonderful, and the other... it might be an exaggeration. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_d4e9de59 | |
Always Coming Home / int_d63f8a53 | type |
The Alternet | |
Always Coming Home / int_d63f8a53 | comment |
The Alternet: The Exchange, as it is called. AIs maintain it for both themselves and humanity. No proper security, but any data older than 24 hours is automatically archived, and digging it up is problematic due to the lack of a user-friendly search engine. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_d63f8a53 | |
Always Coming Home / int_d848560f | type |
Unusual Euphemism | |
Always Coming Home / int_d848560f | comment |
Unusual Euphemism: "Living on the coast" and "coming inland" are terms for the mandatory post-puberty chastity and taking on a partner, respectively. At the beginning of "Chandi", the people say the titular character is lucky to be marries to such a woman and "To plow and weed and tend and harvest that bit of ground, in the gardens of the night!" The Ginkgo tree is used as a synonym for homosexuality, due to the need to plant male and female trees far apart (the fruit are described by The Other Wiki to smell "like rancid butter or vomit"). | |
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Always Coming Home / int_d848560f | |
Always Coming Home / int_d9cf40fa | type |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
Always Coming Home / int_d9cf40fa | comment |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Stone Telling describes how, when the Dayao start suffering defeats and food shortages, a lot of their commoners start running away. She follows soon. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_d9cf40fa | |
Always Coming Home / int_dc8ba6d5 | type |
The Scapegoat | |
Always Coming Home / int_dc8ba6d5 | comment |
The Scapegoat: A lot of people among the Dayao once their ruler's policy of trying to take on the entire continent at once was shown not to go as smoothly as expected. After all, there was no way their divine Glorious Leader was at fault. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_dc8ba6d5 | |
Always Coming Home / int_de3ab766 | type |
Divine Birds | |
Always Coming Home / int_de3ab766 | comment |
Divine Birds: For the Kesh, the birds are intermediaries between the Earth Houses and Sky houses. For the Dayao, a Condor is the sacred bird after which they are named. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_de3ab766 | |
Always Coming Home / int_e11b003d | type |
Translation Convention | |
Always Coming Home / int_e11b003d | comment |
Translation Convention: A primary device of the book is that it is Le Guin, in the persona of "Pandora", translating texts/songs/interviews from Kesh and the other constructed languages she invented. Todd Barton, who worked with Le Guin to write and record the Kesh music to accompany the book, relates that they were initially denied copyright because of a misunderstanding that they were actually reproducing the work of real Kesh speakers. Le Guin and Barton explained that so far as they knew, only two people in the world then spoke Kesh. | |
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Always Coming Home | hasFeature |
Always Coming Home / int_e11b003d | |
Always Coming Home / int_e1cd3d | type |
The Bard | |
Always Coming Home / int_e1cd3d | comment |
The Bard: The Kesh have several types of Clown for different social purposes, some of which satire society and those behaving badly in a way that exposes their foolishness. When Terter Abhao claims that Willow belongs to him, a Blood Clown mocks him by twisting his words into complete nonsense. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_e1cd3d | |
Always Coming Home / int_e43130c1 | type |
Interrupted Intimacy | |
Always Coming Home / int_e43130c1 | comment |
Interrupted Intimacy: Stone Telling describes how she traveled to another town in her childhood. Her cousins there tended to have fun at night by interrupting amorous teens. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_e43130c1 | |
Always Coming Home / int_e6a901a3 | type |
Meaningful Rename | |
Always Coming Home / int_e6a901a3 | comment |
Meaningful Rename: People in the Valley tend to have three names throughout their lives; as children, as adults and as old people. The mother of Stone Telling was Willow as an adult, and once she broke up with Terter, demanded to be called by her childhood name, Towhee. It was considered an extremely wrong action which her daughter never accepted, and upon her death, she was mourned as Ashes. Stone Telling herself also had a fourth (or rather, second) name while living among the Dayao. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_e6a901a3 | |
Always Coming Home / int_e9a3a1ed | type |
Never Learned to Read | |
Always Coming Home / int_e9a3a1ed | comment |
Never Learned to Read: The Dayao consider the acts of reading and writing to be sacred, parts of the act of Creation, so any commoner attempting to engage in either is punished severely. This causes a lot of confusion for Night Owl: among the Kesh, the only ones illiterate are those physically or mentally incapable of reading. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_e9a3a1ed | |
Always Coming Home / int_e9db9908 | type |
Younger Than They Look | |
Always Coming Home / int_e9db9908 | comment |
Younger Than They Look: It is mentioned that Terter Abhao appeared to have aged prematurely the last time his daughter saw him. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_e9db9908 | |
Always Coming Home / int_eaf5a1ac | type |
Groin Attack | |
Always Coming Home / int_eaf5a1ac | comment |
Groin Attack: One poem has a story of a man whose penis was tired of constantly being forced to work, so it cut itself off and ran away. The Coyote cutting off a bear's balls in one of the stories, and then a human commander doing it to himself. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_eaf5a1ac | |
Always Coming Home / int_eb88956c | type |
Language Drift | |
Always Coming Home / int_eb88956c | comment |
Language Drift: The language of the Kesh is unrecognizable to us nowadays. There are also mentions of differences accumulated over time: when Le Guin describes the Kesh alphabet, she also describes an older archaic alphabet that was abandoned because the language had changed so much it was not usable any more. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_eba6a077 | type |
Cain and Abel | |
Always Coming Home / int_eba6a077 | comment |
Cain and Abel: The story of the Coyote and the human commander has his sons killing each other. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_eba6a077 | |
Always Coming Home / int_ed05cfee | type |
Naïve Newcomer | |
Always Coming Home / int_ed05cfee | comment |
Naïve Newcomer: Stone Telling has a lot of that when living among the Dayao. Her father, correspondingly, has his moments in the Valley. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_ed05cfee | |
Always Coming Home / int_edb6dd67 | type |
We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future | |
Always Coming Home / int_edb6dd67 | comment |
We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future: It is completely normal in The Valley, subject to proper discussion beforehand. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_edb6dd67 | |
Always Coming Home / int_f1d6144a | type |
War Is Hell | |
Always Coming Home / int_f1d6144a | comment |
War Is Hell: For Kesh, war is idiocy, at least on the scale they are familiar with it (a dozen people fighting another tribe over some offense). Stone Telling, however, who had lived with the warlike Dayao, has learned and describes the horrors of war in detail. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_f1d6144a | |
Always Coming Home / int_f64b5d46 | type |
Forbidden Love | |
Always Coming Home / int_f64b5d46 | comment |
Forbidden Love: Relationships between people in any one of the Five Houses are taboo and treated as incest, even absent any familial connection. Le Guin describes this by analogy to moiety kinship systems in various real-life cultures. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_f64b5d46 | |
Always Coming Home / int_f6624c30 | type |
Together in Death | |
Always Coming Home / int_f6624c30 | comment |
Together in Death: The Wedding Night at Chukulmas has a wedding ceremonynote Proper weddings are only conducted on a particular day of the year in the Valley. joined by the ghosts of a man and a woman who died before they could get married. In the end, it is agreed the formal ceremony can, in fact, be performed for them. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_f6624c30 | |
Always Coming Home / int_f7bbd5b0 | type |
I Will Find You | |
Always Coming Home / int_f7bbd5b0 | comment |
I Will Find You: One of the Kesh stories is about a young woman who goes missing. Her boyfriend is desperate to find her again, but it's only a fragment (in the extended edition, it is more, but still misses the ending), so we never learn if he does. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_f7bbd5b0 | |
Always Coming Home / int_f844a17c | type |
Blame Game | |
Always Coming Home / int_f844a17c | comment |
Blame Game: The Dayao attempt to shift the blame upon each other when the war went badly for them. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_f844a17c | |
Always Coming Home / int_f88600be | type |
Higher Understanding Through Drugs | |
Always Coming Home / int_f88600be | comment |
Higher Understanding Through Drugs: In "The Visionary", the narrator claims both herself and others attempted to enhance their visions through alcohol and cannabis, but it's a method considered cheap, and also not very efficient. | |
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Always Coming Home / int_f88600be | |
Always Coming Home / int_fbb54ba6 | type |
Forever War | |
Always Coming Home / int_fbb54ba6 | comment |
Forever War: The hostility in "Old Women Hating". No one remembers when it started or if there can be a point to it now. | |
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