![]() UG: The first book I felt had been dictated was Very Far Away from Anywhere Else. I just couldn’t see a southern Italian girl being a blue eyed blonde. Except that, of course, I tried not to deny anything that Virgil says-except the color of her hair. I’m not following a mapped road I’m following a road but I don’t always know where it goes. More and more I realize that in my writing I just find out what happens next. ![]() I wasn’t choosing the way as an author, I was taking dictation, as it were-finding the story as it happened. I was deeply engaged with Virgil, and, of course, Virgil himself is a character in the book. ![]() It has happened before, but not quite in this way. ![]() Like Joan of Arc, I’m hearing voices! I knew who it was, but not quite what was going on-she just went on telling me things, so, okay, I know I’m getting one of these dictated books. I know who I was,” you know? That paragraph just came and I wrote it down. On about the third page of, Lavinia begins talking-“I don’t know who I am. Okay: I’m reading the Aeneid in Latin very, very, very slowly, with my high school Latin revived as best as I could sort of chewing my way through. Ursula Le Guin: I’m not sure how it came about. ![]()
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