Ursula K. Le Guin - "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"


	Ursula K. Le Guin - "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"

Lexica

10-1-2009 1:09 PM

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stories, ethics, morality, omelas, ursula-k-le-guin, accountability, devils-bargain

Lexica says:

Beautiful. Important. Difficult to read. Worth it.

"…they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

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      <FONT size="7">The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas</FONT></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://web.archive.org/web/20060901110102/http://teacherweb.ftl.pinecrest.edu/crawfor/apcg/Unit1Omelas.htm"><P align="center">
<SPAN><FONT size="5" color="#000080">by 
Ursula K. Le Guin</FONT></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://web.archive.org/web/20060901110102/http://teacherweb.ftl.pinecrest.edu/crawfor/apcg/Unit1Omelas.htm">With a clamor of bells that set the swallows 
soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas, bright-towered by the 
sea. The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets 
between houses with red roofs and painted walls, between old moss-grown gardens 
and under avenues of trees, past great parks and public buildings, processions 
moved. Some were decorous: old people in long stiff robes of mauve and grey, 
grave master workmen, quiet, merry women carrying their babies and chatting as 
they walked. In other streets the music beat faster, a shimmering of gong and 
tambourine, and the people went dancing, the procession was a dance. Children 
dodged in and out, their high calls rising like the swallows’ crossing flights 
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