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How soon after the invention of writing men began to make books is uncertain because the books themselves have not survived.
In director Arwen Curry's forthcoming Worlds of Ursula K Le Guin, which Curry worked on with Le Guin for 10 years, the novelist speaks of how when she started writing, "men were at the centre" of fantasy and admits that "from my own cultural upbringing, I couldn't go down deep and come up with a woman wizard".
We were discussing a review I had done on her short story collection, and while discussing the characterization of a man, a father, in one of her stories, she confided a concern in writing men effectively.
In a similar vein, I enjoy writing men because I get to ask questions -- different questions for each character, of course, as there is no one trait or circumstance that is true for all men.
She also tied the problem of rape to the issues of pregnancy, writing, "Men began to rape women when they discovered that sexual intercourse led to pregnancy".
Men, young and otherwise, were to form a major focal point of her writing; men, wryly and sometimes wistfully observed by a single female character, bring both excitement and disappointment - and mostly the latter - to the heroines of all her books.
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The process of writing Man in the Dark was, Auster says, unusual for him.
I'm not really sure what Dan Abrams' motivation was for writing "Man Down".
"In favoring perceived duty over morality," she writes, "men and women were more alike than different".
"In the pursuit of happiness," she wrote, "men and women often take different paths".
Another wrote: "men's hockey team had fancy dress party at Student Union bar.
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