"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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She exists because of the hope of racial reconciliation through empathy and hard work and her parents split up and her childhood was rocked by how that hope failed She is profoundly shaped by her anger and bitterness over that failure
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Orr loves her for that, for her anger and her cynicism that existed in contrast to the deep and abiding hope that still got her through every day In his mind, she embodies that same contradiction in American history So when that history goes away, she winks out too
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Does it? Or is MLK even there? It certainly seems like it’s Le Guin who erases him first...
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SNCC would not have existed if not for the civil rights movement And SNCC is central to Heather's backstory, and Heather is a major character
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