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Old September 25, 2024, 05:00 PM
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Entre los huéspedes del Valle de Napa

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La frase en cuestión es del libro Tinta invisible de Javier Peña.

La infancia de Ursula K. Le Guin no tuvo nada de ordinaria. Su padre, Alfred Kroeber, era un prestigioso antropólogo y en los años 30 solían alojarse en su casa del Valle de Napa los huéspedes más variopintos. Uno de ellos era un nativo de la tribu de los yurok al que llamaban Robert Spott. Durante las cenas, Spott seguía una costumbre de su pueblo: si alguien hablaba, bajaba los cubiertos y dejaba de masticar hasta que el otro terminaba de hablar; luego volvía a comer.......

Ursula comenzó a crear los universos ficticios que la convertirían en una de las mejores autoras de literatura fantástica en aquel entorno tan peculiar. Imaginó sus primeras historias entre los huéspedes del Valle de Napa, antes incluso de poder expresarlas con palabras. Cuando ya era una autora consolidada, a menudo le preguntaban: ¿Siempre has querido ser escritora?
¡No!, decía Ursula, ¡siempre he sido escritora! No era una cuestión de voluntad, era una parte de ella misma, como el color del pelo o la forma de las orejas.

What does "Imaginó sus primeras historias entre los huéspedes del Valle de Napa" mean? Does it mean that she imagined her first stories when she was sitting at the table among (entre) those guests?

Or does it refer to something like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin

he Kroeber family had a number of visitors, including well-known academics such as Robert Oppenheimer; Le Guin would later use Oppenheimer as the model for Shevek, the physicist protagonist of The Dispossessed. The family divided its time between a summer home in the Napa Valley, and a house in Berkeley during the academic year.

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She grew up in a rich environment, where visitors to the family home in the Napa Valley inspired her first stories. As I understand, they were the material to imagine things.
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Old September 26, 2024, 04:26 AM
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