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The Word For Man Is Ishi

The Last Archive

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The Dark Secret of Omelos

In the story, Le Guin asks you to imagine the best place you can. This is the dark secret of Omelos, the child in the basement. All the happiness in Omelos rests on that kid's suffering. It's a thought experiment. Would it be worth it? The show about how we know what we know and why it seems sometimes lately like we don't know anything at all anymore.

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