The Lathe of Heaven - the book and movie
The Lathe of Heaven - Cover of first edition (hardcover)
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The Lathe of Heaven is a 1971 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. The plot revolves around a character whose dreams alter past and present reality.
The Lathe of Heaven - Wikipedia
Bookreview on Stranger Views
The Movie
The PBS version of the Ursula K. LeGuin novel "Lathe of Heaven" last aired in 1980.
A psychiatrist (Kevin Conway) tries to change the world through a man (Bruce Davison) whose dreams literally come true.
The title is taken from the writings of Chuang Tzu (莊周)
The title is taken from the writings of Chuang Tzu — specifically a passage from Book XXIII, paragraph 7, quoted as an epigraph to Chapter 3 of the novel.
He whose mind is thus grandly fixed emits a Heavenly light. In him who emits this heavenly light men see the (True) man. When a man has cultivated himself (up to this point), thenceforth he remains constant in himself. When he is thus constant in himself, (what is merely) the human element will leave him, but Heaven will help him. Those whom their human element has left we call the people of Heaven. Those whom Heaven helps we call the Sons of Heaven. Those who would by learning attain to this seek for what they cannot learn. Those who would by effort attain to this, attempt what effort can never effect. Those who aim by reasoning to reach it reason where reasoning has no place. To know to stop where they cannot arrive by means of knowledge is the highest attainment. Those who cannot do this will be destroyed on the lathe of Heaven.
庄子 or 莊子 Zhūangzi (c. 369 BC – c. 286 BC)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zhuangzi
