I'm not looking at* her rendering (which she was at least honest about it not being a translation -- she did actual translations of other works and did indeed know the difference) but in the past I've found her commentary on it of some use, at least for conceptualizing.


* Especially not while still theoretically engaged in my own. Le Guin was a master wordsmith and I do not want to sound like her,** because I am not her.
** Unless I'm writing fiction, in which case I would love to have even a hundredth of her craft.