Ursula LeGuin, explaining the setting in time of one of her short stories in Tales from Earthsea: "'Darkrose and Diamond' might take place at any time during the last couple of hundred years in Earthsea; after all, a love story can happen at any time, anywhere."
And what a wonderful story it is: LeGuin is always writing about the power of naming, and the way in which all things are connected, and what the implications of gender are. LeGuin is quite a myth-maker (or whatever it is that C.S. Lewis says about George MacDonald).
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