But if, on the strange, freakishly unlikely chance she wasn't. Le Guin would almost certainly have been immensely pleased with The Scholomance Trilogy. Nevertheless Naomi Novik pulled the whole thing out of her hat in The Scholomance Trilogy in a full fledged, baroque, fantastical, character driven articulation. Le Guin apparently, when it really comes down to it. But I never really imagined coming up with a story story for The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. I am very good at coming up with stories, in my head at the very least. It's desperately sad but strangely beautiful. It is sort of presented as an ethical dilemma, but in my opinion it is really a story, brief as it is, and as sad as it is, and as hopeful as it is, that also quietly answers that question "No. It is a great story that is not quite a story, and it asks as its whole conceit, plot, and character is it ever worth victimizing one innocent for the good of the many? It is fundamentally an ethical presentation. The Kingdom, or city, is the character and the dilemma. Le Guin presents a small, perfectly run little kingdom as a parable. In what is perhaps the oddly greatest short short story ever written, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, Ursula K.
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