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Ursula Le Guin

	City wins battle, closes hot spot
		The city wanted Illusions shuttered because of the bar's string of liquor-license violations, including overcrowding and the serving of minors.
		Illusions' notoriety peaked in November when shots were fired from a passing car, narrowly missing patrons who included two Detroit Pistons players.
		He said Monday he hoped to sell Illusions' liquor license and fixtures for $850,000.
	www.freep.com /news/locoak/nbar2_20010302.htm (222 words)

	City of Illusions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		City of Illusions is a 1967 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, set on Earth in the distant future in her Ekumen series.
		The story starts when a man crawls into a tiny village (housed in one building) in eastern North America.
		City of Illusions is the first of Le Guin's novels to deal with some of her frequent themes: Taoism (the Tao Te Ching has talismanic value to Falk), liberation, an oppressive male-dominated culture, and perhaps anarchism in the original village and its neighbors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/City_of_Illusions (216 words)

	City to review liquor licenses
		City officials say they're tired of drug and gambling arrests, public intoxication and assaults, including one in January allegedly involving members of the Ilitch family and three bar bouncers.
		City Commissioner Peter Webster said Friday the city plans aggressive legal actions and new police patrols at the troublesome corner of Fourth and Lafayette.
		To stay in business, Illusions must submit a revised plan of operation reflecting changes made since the city approved its original plan, which was to be a "magic-themed family restaurant," Marcinkowski said.
	www.freep.com /news/locoak/nbooze6_20000306.htm (776 words)

	David L. Porter- The Politics of Le Guin's Opus
		In fact, Le Guin is amazingly consistent in her general preoccupation with the relationship of good and evil, the illusions of superior accomplishment, and the role of the individual in the face of catastrophic change.
		A second type of illusion of superiority is that form of cultural imperialism which sees the homeland's way of life as alone deserving recognition; appearing in virtually all of her writings, it is a dominant theme in WWF.
		Another type of illusion appears when a highly "progressive" society depends for its very success on a fundamental moral failure; the ambiguously utopian Omelas community of OWO is her perfected model, though her most explicit imperialists—such as the Terran New Tahiti colony on Athshe in WWF and the Shing in CI—belong to the same family.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/7/porter7art.htm (3271 words)

	City Lights, Sojourners Magazine/January-February 2000
		It was amazing to me as pastor of an inner city parish that it was often those who had so little, who had suffered the most, who had so little reason to believe—they were the very ones who had the greatest faith.
		Yet they have lost the illusion of their own self-importance and are willing to walk the way of the cross at the many stations throughout every urban area.
		They live and work in the midst of the city in order to more tangibly embrace the noise, the pollution, the hurts, the people of the city in their prayer.
	www.sojo.net /index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0001&article=000121 (1746 words)

	Optical Illusions
		Optical Illusions are relevant to aviation in that the main guidance system of most aircraft on most flights is the pilot's eyes.
		The hazards of optical illusions are many considering that at any time during the flight they can cause a healthy and experienced pilot to become confused, delusional and generally disoriented with obvious possible consequences.
		This is why we must study and be aware of optical illusions so that we may be better prepared should we encounter one at a critical time.
	www.freeessays.cc /db/8/asp9.shtml (1865 words)

	Amazon.com: City of Illusions: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The City of Illusions is the last of a loose trilogy of works that the author calls the "Three Hainish Novels".
		City of Illusions is just thatÐa city set not on a hill, but in a gorge, attempting to hide from the light that may reveal it to be what it is, a foundation of falsity that can crumble when struck by anything unwilling to immerse itself in the lie.
		Anything less is simply attempting to build a society, or a city, or a life on a foundation of illusion.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0441107060?v=glance (1531 words)

	American Committee on Jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is a city in which all loud noises sound like they're bombs.
		They say that Jerusalem is a city in which the dead are much more important than the living.
		Earlier in the weekend, Iman Gazawi, 23, from Nablus, was arrested on Friday near the new central bus station in Tel Aviv and admitted she had planned to plant a bomb in the area.
	www.acj.org /august/August_6.htm (5513 words)

	Chapter 7: Explicity Daoist Works
		learn that the remaining Han cities "were destroyed and their populations hunted down, thus completing the reclamation of America" and beginning the "most glorious and noble era of scientific civilization in the history of the American race" (1134).
		In her introduction to the 1978 reissue of City of Illusions, Le Guin notes that she has "villain trouble" in the book, primarily that the Shing are unconvincing.
		Spivack may underestimate Falco, a major Boss of the City, but her point is legitimate, as is her valuing the ambiguity that leads to complexity in LHD and TD over the clarity of EoH.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /sfra/Coyote/daoistnovels.htm (14607 words)

	City of Asheville - Council Minutes 05/21/2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		City Manager Westbrook said that about 3-4 years ago he sent MSD a list of homes in the City that did not have sewer.
		King to let the City know as soon as possible the results of the feasibility study so the City may begin to fund their responsibilities.
		It was the consensus of City Council to instruct City Clerk Burleson to prepare the proper paperwork to reappoint Ms.
	www.ashevilleparks.org /council/05-21-02.htm (1772 words)

	Douglas Barbour- Wholeness and Balance in the Hainish Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin
		His culture's sanity-the awareness that balance must be sought where dark and light meet and mix, in the ambiguous center where simple-minded "we-they" solutions fail-emerges organically from its total context in the fictional world of the novel.
		Yet that balance, though no longer clearly Taoist, is paralleled in the Taoist insights of City of Illusions and The Left Hand of Darkness, in the teachings of the Handdarata in the latter book, in the joining of the races in Planet of Exile, and in the lessons learned by Rocannon in Rocannon's World.
		The people of the planet Hain originally "seeded" all the habitable worlds of this part of the galaxy, producing a humanoid universe that is single, expanding, and historically continuous but at the same time marvelous in its variety, for the conditions on each planet caused specific local mutations.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/3/barbour3art.htm (4044 words)

	The City as Kurukshetra
		This is evident when films deal with the city not only as the canvas for the unfolding action, but as an entity whose spirit seeps into the characters, shaping not only their dreams and destinies but percolating into their very psyche.
		But this is the city which gave the world "Salaam Bombay," for it to salute the undying spirit of a metropolis which glories in its infinitely multipliable complementary contradictions: its grime and glitz, insularity and cosmopolitanism, arrogance and vulnerability, its indifference and unexpected caring.
		Bombay is a city which allows you to withdraw into your own little shell, clawed out of the concrete jungle even as the press of humanity crushes and catches you in its frenetic pace.
	www.hinduonnet.com /folio/fo0101/01010420.htm (1931 words)

	SparkNotes: The Phantom Tollbooth: Chapters 9–11
		Alec explains that Reality was once as beautiful as Illusions, but people in Reality decided that things would be much more efficient if they went everywhere as fast as possible and didn't bother to stop and appreciate things along the way.
		The city of Illusions is even worse; it does not even exist as anything but a mirage.
		In the twin cities, we see what might have happened to poor Milo if he had not corrected his problem: the things around him would have become uninteresting, just as they did in the city of Reality.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/tollbooth/section4.rhtml (1268 words)

	Atlantic City Weddings - Illusions Productions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Illusions Productions goal is to provide our clients the best quality and professionalism.
		We believe that on your wedding day, you should have a memorable video of the day unfolding which is tailored and crafted just for you.
		Illusions uses a cinematography and journalistic approach to capture our clients style and personalities.
	www.atlanticcityweddings.com /services/illusions/illusions.HTM (126 words)

	Urban Design Project :: The Queen City Hub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Queen City Hub: A Regional Action Plan for Downtown Buffalo is the product of continuing concerted civic effort on the part of Buffalonians to improve the center of their city.
		The effort was led by the Office of Strategic Planning in the City of Buffalo, the planning staff at Buffalo Place Inc., and faculty and staff of the Urban Design Project in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo.
		The Queen City Hub is part of a broader emerging framework of planning that encompasses Downtown Buffalo's inner ring of neighborhoods, the whole City of Buffalo, and the region.
	urbandesignproject.ap.buffalo.edu /hub (341 words)

	City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin - SFandF.com - Science Fiction Books and Fantasy Books
		Now, like those she disdained, she must scramble for bread in the teeming streets of the capital city, the key to her abilities an elusive secret, and find a way to survive in a world gone mad...
		In the desert city, Xalycis Rock, the cunning hide beneath masks of perfume, the Shandar read the bones of their dead, the Thrani knifedance in narcotic clouds of fl khur -
		Now a renegade chemic and a disowned noble must help the beautiful psychic Moabet to use her buried powers and all the arts of magic, illusion, and trickery.
	www.sfandf.com /html/scifi-fantasy-books.html?id=1&p1=Illusion (538 words)

	City Pages - Illusions of Perfection
		But I'd guess it was quite deliberate--especially given the way Renoir's previous film, Grand Illusion (March 27), makes light of the differences between French and German armies in World War I. Released in 1938, Grand Illusion created a template for POW camp stories from Stalag 17 to Hogan's Heroes.
		In a DVD commentary, the late director states that the Nazis introduced a new brutality, that they "spoiled the spirit of the world." Renoir's generous spirit may have been damaged by the reality of the Nazis' genocidal efficiency--indeed, his postwar films have not held up like their predecessors.
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	www.citypages.com /databank/26/1266/article13042.asp (1721 words)

	Giotto di Bondone Florentine painter and architect artist quotation quotes and posters and madonna art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rome is the city of echos, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
		Between 1329 and 1332, he worked for the King of Naples and in 1334 he was appointed chief architect for the Cathedral of Florence, which he helped design and for which he created several statues.
		He died in Florence in January, 1337 and was buried in the cathedral with great civic honors and at the expense of the city.
	www.artopp.net /bondone.htm (669 words)

	TIMEasia.com \| Visions of China: Shanghai \| 9/27/99
		Many men become obsessed with "Shanghai roses" even before they set foot in the city, held fast by the imaginary fragrance of the flowers and their enchantingly suggestive intimacy.
		This is a pretentious city, and expertise in pretentiousness is a necessity for survival in the city's nights.
		Her ecstasy and agony are rooted in her romance with the city.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/99/0927/shanghai.html (1482 words)

	Visit Buffalo Niagara - Media Kit, Just the Facts
		Buffalo was settled in 1800 and incorporated as a city in 1832.
		Buffalo's reputation for snowfall is in part the result of snow received in the "snowbelt" south of the city.
		Averaging 100 flights with nonstop service to 24 cities, the BNIA serves 4.25 million passengers annually from a state-of-the-art terminal constructed in 1998.
	www.buffalocvb.org /media_kit_5.html (1804 words)

	Book Review
		A full-grown man emerges from the forest with no memory or life skills and must be trained from scratch by the primitive clan that discovers him and names him Falk.
		He realizes he must travel west to the great city of Es Toch to learn his identity and past.
		Es Toch is inhabited by the Shing, either a regulator or conqueror race -- it is not clear which -- that supposedly maintains peace on the planet.
	www.allreaders.com /BookRView.asp?BRID=29650 (213 words)

	UTU: News
		One-way fares will be $3, compared with $1.25 for city buses that serve the Strip; existing pedestrian bridges and trams are free.
		Three years later, it announced plans to revive service between the two cities and cut travel time from seven hours to 5 1/2 or less by adding a passing lane and high-speed cars.
		You could get to Las Vegas in less than 90 minutes from this Orange County city, speeding up to 300 mph, according to backers of a $10-billion plan to build a magnetic-levitation train system between the two cities.
	www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=14531 (926 words)

	Discount Illusions, Ute Lemper CD CD - FindUsedCDs.com - Compare Music CD Prices. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Amazon Review - Illusions, Ute Lemper CD `Illusions' and `City of Strangers', albums primarily of vocals by Ute Lemper, were released in 1992 and 1995 respectively, interspersed with her releasing the last of her major albums of Kurt Weill material in 1993.
		`Illusions' and `City of Strangers' are both a mix of songs in German, French, and English.
		Of the two, `Illusions' is the more coherent, but that difference is small.
	wwww.findusedcds.com /028943672023/Illusions_Ute_Lemper/default.aspx (488 words)

	Spotlight on Las Vegas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Las Vegas, city of illusions, the new Venetian Casino has created the illusion of a city.
		It was a clear may morning--opening day for the Venetian, the latest elegant resort-casino along the Las Vegas "Strip." Italy's enduring beauty, actress Sophia Loren, was on hand to christen one of the Venetian's brightly colored gondolas floating in an outdoor waterway.
		To that end, the Venetian's exterior is a to-scale amalgam of the colonnades of the Doge's Palace, the 315-foot Campanile Bell Tower, the Rialto Bridge, and other architectural icons of one of Italy's most celebrated cities.
	www.securitymanagement.com /library/000729.html (2683 words)

	North Mission Road on Courttv.com
		If Los Angeles is a city of illusions, those illusions end at 1104 North Mission Road, the home of the Los Angeles County Coroner.
		Here, up to 20,000 cases are investigated annually, to determine the identity, cause and manner of death.
		Each episode follows the highly trained professionals of the L.A. County Coroner Department as they use the latest in forensic medicine and investigative techniques to solve a variety of challenging mysteries.
	www.courttv.com /onair/shows/north_mission_road (96 words)

	City of God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		City of God & the City of Man in Africa
		City of God a Novel of the Borgias
		City of Gold and Other Stories from the Old Testament
	www.buydiscountedbooks.com /10397_city-of-illusions/le-guin-ursula.html (64 words)

	Index: Stories, Listed by Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The City of Mummies • Edgar Rice Burroughs • (na)
		City of the Cosmic Rays • Nathan Schachner • (nv)
		The City that Grew in the Sea • Keith Laumer • (nv)
	users.ev1.net /~homeville/isfac/l16.htm (1289 words)

	Jake Matthews
		My best friend is Mark Finnelly and we live in the small quiet city of Rancho Santa Margarita.
		They are shown in tatoo form on my left hand (pentagram), right hand (pinnacle) and chest (mark of the demons).
		I have learned to use these against the supernatural evil that has taken over the city.
	www.lifeintheworldofillusions.50megs.com (493 words)

	Lunacat.net - Science Fiction & Fantasy Books - Authors - Ursula K. Le Guin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929.
		Her novels include Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions, and The Left Hand of Darkness.
		With the awarding of the 1975 Hugo and Nebula Awards to The Dispossessed, she became the first author to win both awards twice for novels.
	www.lunacat.net /authors/author-leguin.htm (76 words)

	Book Review
		He is much different than anyone around him, for he has yellow, cat-like eyes, bringing the conclusion that he's not from Earth.
		Falk, knowing this also, sets out on a journey, west across the country to a city called Es Toch, unfortunately named "The City of Liars", to find who he is.
		Along the way he is introduced to new people, cutltures, technology, and enviroments, each bringing him a new view and one step closer to Es Toch.
	www.allreaders.com /BookRView.asp?BRID=34409 (232 words)

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