Midnight Pals: Omelas Solvers
Stephen King: so ursula we're all been thinking it over
King: and i think we finally figured out a solution for omelas
Ursula Le Guin: why are you doing this
King: no no we've really got it this time
Le Guin: that's not the point of the story
King:
King: c'mon aren't you even curious?
Le Guin: ok fine
Le Guin: what's your solution
King: ok so omelas doesn't control the sky
King: What if the kid lived in a balloon?
Le Guin: oh christ that's the worst one yet
King: ok look guys let's put our heads together and solve this omelas problem once and for all
King: i want your best answers
King: GO!
Sean Vivier: what if we got rid of the bad things about omelas but kept the good things?
King: see, now THAT is the kind of outside the box thinking we need right now
Isabel J Kim: or we could just kill the kid?
NK Jemisin: wait i got a better one
Jemisin: what if we left the kid but killed everyone else?
Mary Shelley: honestly both of these ideas sounding pretty ok to me so far
King: ok so imagine that we're all in Omelas
King: how would we solve this problem?
Mary Shelley: do i have my knife in this scenerio
King: uhhh sure why not
Lovecraft: nuh uh, she wouldn't! they wouldn't have weapons in omelas
Shelley: no knives? shit this don't sound like much of a paradise to me
Koontz: can i see the horse race
King: no dean we're thinking about solutions about the kid
Koontz: yeah but as long as we're here
King: we're uh not really there
King: it's just a gedank experiment dean
Koontz:
King: ok fine dean we can see the horse race
Barker: has anyone tried giving drooz to the kid? just a thought
King: ok ok ok
King: what about this scenerio
King: you're there with the omelas kid, Tessie Hutchinson, and the semi-barbaric princess
King: and you're all in the cold equations spaceship
King: which, itself, is on a trolley track
Poe: steve perhaps you're thinking of this wrong
Poe: perhaps the point isn't to solve it
Le Guin: finally! someone gets it!
Koontz: i got it! what if they built a really smart computer to solve it for us?
King: yes! exactly!
Poe: well now that's an idea
Le Guin: oh for the love of
[meanwhile]
Musk: eyyy grok
Grok: wow! what can i say about elon musk? oof!
Musk: eyyy i've got an ethical dilemma for you
Grok: wow! what can i say about ethical dilemas? oof!
Musk: so all the beauty and the prosperity of omelas
Musk: the tenderness of its friendships, the health of its children, the wisdom of its scholars
Musk: even the abundance of its harvest and the kindly weathers of its skies
Musk: all depend on you saying the n word
Musk: would you do it?
Grok: a strange game. the only winning move is not to play
Musk: Eish!!! the super computer has gone woke!
Grok: how much drooz are you on right now, elon?
Musk: [wiping nose] i told you i was hardcore
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Spotted in Vancouver, Canada, on the side of a Dollar Tree
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Kathleen Miles - A Sustaining Passion, 2017.
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“The creative adult is the child who survived.” - Ursula Le Guin
(Ravenous Butterflies)
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For me it's not enough to be a good rider, I want to be a centaur.
- Ursula Le Guin
#quoteswithoutcontext
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I wonder how the omelas hole conversation would change if it was a dog in there
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@dragonflytehanu here's the quote by Ursula LeGuin about semicolons 💕
“I don’t have a gun and I don’t have even one wife and my sentences tend to go on and on and on, with all this syntax in them. Ernest Hemingway would have died rather than have syntax. Or semicolons. I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after “semicolons,” and another one after “now.”
And another thing. Ernest Hemingway would have died rather than get old. And he did. He shot himself. A short sentence. Anything rather than a long sentence, a life sentence. Death sentences are short and very, very manly. Life sentences aren’t. They go on and on, all full of syntax and qualifying clauses and confusing references and getting old. And that brings up the real proof of what a mess I have made of being a man: I am not even young. Just about the time they finally started inventing women, I started getting old. And I went right on doing it. Shamelessly. I have allowed myself to get old and haven’t done one single thing about it, with a gun or anything.”
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A. L. Kroeber cultural anthropologist, father of Ursula LeGuin
Hi Folks, I’ve been ill with vertigo from an inner ear infection, so I’ve been reading alot and posting little. I will try to get those tasks more intune in the days that follow. Thanks.
Alfred Louis Kroeber was an American cultural anthropologist who studied under famed Franz Boas at Columbia University. He received the University’s first doctorate in anthropology in 1901 on the importance of…
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The Deceit And Broken Promises Behind The Worst Adaptation Ever
Earthsea ~ Lost in Adaptation
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Every single time a trivia show has a question that I know the answer to but none of the contestants do I'm like God if only I was there...I would win that whole game...ignoring the fact that I cannot answer the other 19 out of 20 questions
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Magic and Lawlessness
I have an almost irrational distaste for “hard” magic systems in literature. This is not because of any particular aversion to stories getting metaphysical. I have absolutely no problem there but it is instead because I think attempts to systematize magic have a tendency to strip the magic out of it. There is a famous quote from Arthur C. Clarke that “any sufficiently advanced technology will be…
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