The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" ( OH-mə-LAHSS) is a 1973 short work of philosophical fiction by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child.

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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" ( OH-mə-LAHSS) is a 1973 short work of philosophical fiction by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child.

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