“I never thought before . . .”
“Peculiar,” said Tirin. “I never thought before . . .”
Comments from the other three on the self-evidence of this remark.
“I never thought before,” said Tirin unruffled, “of the fact that there are people sitting on a hill, up there, on Urras, looking at Anarres, at us, and saying, ‘Look, there’s the Moon.’ Our earth is their Moon; our Moon is their earth.”
“Where, then, is Truth?” declaimed Bedap, and yawned.
“In the hill one happens to be sitting on,” said Tirin.
Margaret Atwood
_The Dispossessed_
It is interesting, to me, that Moon is a pronoun, but not earth.
