“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.”
TW: Child abuse
Omelas is perfection, in every way you can imagine; minus one small secret hidden in a basement or a closet, deep under one of the houses in the city. The symbolism and metaphors make you think a lot about what's actually being said, and how it translates to real life. There’s a lot of big words, and confusing sentences. There's also a lot of loose ends by the end of the story which leaves a lot of questions, but I guess that's kinda the point.