... a weekend reading chapters of A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin. It was a book prize back in 1975 ("a good term's English") but I'm not sure I ever read it at the time.

Now, I approach it via Robert Duncan. Did he read and/or know le Guin (no mention in the Jarnot biog.)? Yet the Berkeley connections are suggestive: Duncan's shared house with Philip K. Dick; le Guin and Dick graduated together and corresponded ...

Back in 1975 it would never have occurred to me that le Guin might be using the fantasy genre to explore ideas of poetry and Craft - Ged as a Duncan-style Magus travelling between the shattered islands of Jungian self-making, pursued and pursuing a Shadow of his own creation. Today, the possibility seems near certain. (And what about that cover?)

Anyone out there able to put more flesh on the bones?