{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Off the Top of My Head: The Giver", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/637636421617942528/", "html": "<h1>Off the Top of My Head: The Giver</h1><p>The kids and the Kid are ready for their lifetime role assignments! Some of them get middling stuff, or laborers. A bunch of girls are laborers but they birth two kids each and get pampered first.</p><p>The Kid is gifted so he&rsquo;s going to be the new Giver, who bears and transmits community knowledge! So he apprentices with the current, old one</p><p>Whose role involves to\u2026 weigh the babies when one of the girls has twins, then throw the lighter one down a garbage chute\ufffc?</p><p>And they&rsquo;re both like &ldquo;oh woe, this sounds like The Holocaust, which I remember from Lois Lowry&rsquo;s last award-bait YA novel, <i>Number the Stars</i>&rdquo;</p><p>And like, The Kid toboggans down a slope to escape and I just realized this was the same ending as <i>Calvin and Hobbes</i>?</p>"}