The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas

Name: The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas
ISBN: 9780886825010

Ursula K. Le Guin

Published1993

Pages32

FormatLibrary Binding

PublisherCreative Education

Fiction Mystery Thriller Fantasy Science Fiction Romance

Synopsis

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.

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About Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

1929–2018

"As of 2010, Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include a volume of poetry, Incredible Good Fortune, the novel Lavinia, and an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl. She lives in Portland, Oregon." - [source][1] [1]: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Biography-70Word.html

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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”

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“Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive”

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“They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.”

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“Scientific thought is fed by the capacity to 'see' things differently than they have previously been seen.”

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