The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Le Guin, Ursula

A passage from the author's 1973 story – more unpicking of the infrastructures needed to maintain utopias; printed to commemorate a wedding on 1 May 1993, 'At times, one of the adolescent girls or boys who go to see the child does not go home to weep or rage, does not, in fact, go home at all. They keep walking across ...'