![]() ![]() She often goes there in the summer with her husband, Charles, a professor emeritus of history at Portland State University, to a ranch on the stony ridge of Steens Mountain, overlooking the refuge. The high desert of eastern Oregon is one of Le Guin’s places. She had been mildly cheered up, she added, by following a Twitter feed with the hashtag #BundyEroticFanFic. ![]() for being so slow to remove these “hairy gunslinging fake cowboys” from public property. She was distressed by the damage they had done to scientific programs and to historical artifacts belonging to the local Paiute tribe, and critical of the F.B.I. In an e-mail to me last winter, she wrote that she felt “eaten up” with frustration at the ongoing occupation of an eastern Oregon wildlife refuge by an armed band of antigovernment agitators led by the brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy. Le Guin is far from immune to bouts of political anger. Politics has been obsessing a lot of people lately, and Ursula K. Le Guin says she is “not just trying to get into other minds but other beings.” Illustration by Essy May ![]()
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