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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

441 - (WMTBG?) "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," by Ursula K. LeGuin

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This commercial-free episode of What Makes This Book Great? includes listener responses to "Cat Person," and a reading of Ursula K. LeGuin's story, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," written in 1974.

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Intro music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range.



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0:00.0

Radio Mano, Papa Tchango

0:02.3

?

0:22.0

?

0:28.1

Good morning everyone,

0:30.5

This is gonna be an episode of what makes this book great. It's been a while.

0:37.3

Man, I love being on the road, love being in the van,

0:42.1

Love jumping in rivers in the morning, love sitting by the fire, looking at the stars at night swinging in a hammock,

0:50.0

But I like being in a house with a really good microphone and a computer

0:55.6

That I don't need to set up every time I want to use it. It's just sitting here on the table waiting for me

1:00.4

I can just sit down with my cup of tea

1:04.4

Hit a couple of buttons and here we are

1:07.3

man, that's nice

1:09.3

All right, so I'm gonna read a

1:13.8

story

1:15.8

Later called the ones

1:18.8

Who walk away from all my last I think it is it's by Ursula K.

1:24.4

Ligwin and

1:28.2

It's a hell of a story as you're gonna see

1:31.8

But before I get into that

1:34.8

What I'm gonna do is go back and look at some of the responses that I got to

1:43.8

Cat person the story I read a couple of months ago a few months ago now

1:50.4

You remember the woman it's about a relationship and includes all the texting and the

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