Laia Asieo Odo

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Laia Asieo Odo is the historic founder of "Odonianism" and the planet Anarres in The Dispossessed (by Le Guin); she is the central figure in "The Day Before the Revolution". She is an older woman, a widow, who has written significant anarchist treatises and become a figure to the developing anarchist revolutionary movement.

In her discussion of the story in The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Le Guin refers to Laia as one of the ones who walk away from Omelas.

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