There's the portal up ahead. I just have to get there.
(Where's Le Guin's Sparrowhawk when you need him?)
"The story of the book is essentially a voyage, a pattern in the form of a long spiral. I began to see the places where the young wizard would go. Eventually I drew a map. Now that I knew where everything was, now was the time for cartography. Of course a great deal of it only appeared above water, as it were, in drawing the map."
--Ursula Le Guin, writing about the evolving, unfolding, organic genesis and composition of her masterpiece The Wizard of Earthsea in her essay "Dreams Must Explain Themselves," a worthy read in its own right.
Thank you, Ursula Le Guin, for sparking so many spiral journeys of the imagination.
