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[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

Within cells interlinked

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

I just read that story. I feel like i kinda got the gist but I'm missing something specific and important. Unless that is just how metaphor goes?

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

ive read the story about 5 times over the last 20+ years (im old)

at different points in my life it has meant different things

this is the amazing thing about that story

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

Ah, thank you friend

[-] newerAccountWhoDis@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" 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. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Fiction in 1974 and won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1974.