![]() ![]() ![]() She did not hear the words, nor see the faces: only theīooming, and the bodies pressed one behind the other. She wormed and pushed her wayĪmong the dark-clothed, close-packed people. Meeting were jammed up close, cobblestones, that great voice booming over them. ![]() The speaker's voice was as loud as empty beer-trucks in a stone street, and the people at the This story is about one of the ones who walked away from Omelas. Wanted a story written, not about the world she made, but about herself. Very grateful, therefore, when Odo came out of the shadows and across the gulf of Probability, and When it was done I felt lost exiled-a displaced person. To embody it in a novel, which had not been done before, was a long and hard job for me, andĪbsorbed me totally for many months. It is the most idealistic, and to me the most Moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). Anarchism's principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist) its principal as prefigured in early Taoist thought, and expounded by Shelley and Kropotkin, GoldmanĪnd Goodman. It tries to dignify itself with not the social-Darwinist economic "libertarianism" of the far right butĪnarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name The novel, and who therefore doesn't get into the action- except implicitly, in that all the action started Name is taken from the founder of their society, Odo, who lived several generations before the time of My novel The Dispossessed is about a small worldful of people who call themselves Odonians. ![]()
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