"The Day Before the Revolution" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin (pictured). First published in Galaxy in August 1974, it was republished in Le Guin's The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975). Set in her fictional Hainish universe, the story has strong connections to her novel The Dispossessed (also 1974), and is sometimes referred to as a prologue to the novel. The story follows Odo, an aging anarchist, who over the course of a day relives memories of her life as an activist as she learns of plans for a general strike the next day. The strike is implied to be the start of the revolt leading to the idealized anarchist society based on Odo's teachings depicted in the novel. The story was critically well-received. It won the Nebula and Locus Awards for Best Short Story in 1975, and was also nominated for a Hugo Award. Multiple scholars commented that it represented a shift in Le Guin's writing toward non-linear narrative structures and works infused with feminism.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1894:

Germany's Emanuel Lasker defeated Wilhelm Steinitz to become the world chess champion, beginning a record 27-year reign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Lasker

1999:

Manchester United won the UEFA Champions League final to become the first English football club to win three major championships in the same season. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2%80%9399_Manchester_United_F.C._season

2002:

Barges being towed destroyed part of a bridge (aftermath pictured) near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, causing vehicles to fall into the Robert S. Kerr Reservoir on the Arkansas River. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-40_bridge_disaster

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

exsanguinate: 1. (transitive) 2. To drain (a living or dead body, or (medicine, surgery) a body part) of blood. 3. To kill (a person or animal) by means of blood loss. 4. (intransitive) 5. To bleed profusely; also, to die by means of blood loss. 6. To cause blood to drain from a body or body part, or profuse bleeding. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exsanguinate

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Youth’s bright palaceIs overthrown,With its diamond sceptreAnd golden throne;As a time-worn stoneIts turrets are humbled—All hath crumbledBut grief alone!   --Denis Florence MacCarthy https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Denis_Florence_MacCarthy