That's my read, anyway, having wrestled with what the hell this story is supposed to be about a bunch In the context of stuff like The Dispossessed or The Lathe of Heaven "I'm not going to try to imagine some perfect world where perfect happiness exists It's too dangerous"
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"If I had a dream machine, I would simply imagine a second City of Omelas, inside the closet, and therefore that Child would not be suffering but be happy And then assuming there was a smaller closet with a smaller Child, I would address the infinite regress with Cantorian sets"
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I do think about the wacky fact that all the new worlds created in The Lathe of Heaven are literally inside Orr's mind That there's one reading of the story where literally nothing is happening but Orr having a dying hallucination after a nuclear war
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Right; you’re supposed to hate Haber, and love Orr, who insists we’re in the best world possible and is right because he’s in perfect balance.
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Remorseless optimism or smug vindication of the status quo.
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