Like other protean, inventive writers who move between speculative and realist fiction (Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro), Le Guin drops her reader into an uncanny double of our own world, a dream where somebody changed the names and shapes of everything and forgot to let you in on the secret.
It now advances knowledge in almost every realm of existence — even the humanities, where neuroscience and computerization are shaping understanding of everything from free will to how art and literature have evolved over time.
Victory with the last kick of a game can have a cleansing effect, shaping the perception of everything that had preceded it.
"The style of the table, the shape of the pitcher, everything relates to each other and invites the guests to take in all the aesthetics of the meal," she said.
There was an element of conscious metaphorical shaping to everything Frost did.
The painting also nods in the direction of Turner, and the way that he dealt with the strange, indeterminate meetings of sea and sea's edge, the shocking changes of colour, how the fumy turbulence of the weather can change the shape and the reality of everything visible within the blink of an eye.
The feet are less than lovely - mottled, calloused, the toenails out of shape, everything well-worn.
Barri uses GLSL as the system's eyes to create the shapes, colors, and textures of everything seen in Versum.
But what remains as powerfully impressive as ever is the sense of shape that informs everything – of how every particle in each score contributes to the whole symphonic organism.
The shape of the ground determines everything.
