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“Where might I have gone if, instead of a middle-aged Hobbit enamored of his pantry, I had embraced a girl who lost three homes before choosing the open road?”

@amalelmohtar.com wrote a great piece about TRAVEL LIGHT for @npr.org
www.npr.org/2014/01/01/2...

I think this is a good Omelas story, not because I think it presents a great answer to Le Guin’s immortal question but because it’s in large part very funny and that’s a refreshing way of doing an Omelas story clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/n

Even a Christmas Day walk along the navigation turns into a strange telling with Maisy. Stories of midnight knocks on the boat hulls below the waterline, eel-nibbled corpses. Every sack-drowned thing in the canal floating to the surface bloated by vengeance. – #MattAdams, 1982

"If you need me," said my 7 year old son, "I'll be in my mind."

Hydrothermal Vents xkcd.com/2872