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Rereading Vonnegut and damn he’s good. Random sentence: “His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on the subject of human liberty.”
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Dr Jim PhD RDPsych
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"So it goes" and "Let us devote to unselfishness the frenzy we once gave gold and underpants."
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Rami Ungar the Writer
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Irony!
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@LuLuRoche
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he sure is
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Michela
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This is the prompt I need to go back to KV. Read a lot of his work in my 20s/30s and loved his mind.
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ProkoCat
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I think about this exact quote often. Love Vonnegut.
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C.V. Danes
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Vonnegut had his finger directly on the pulse of the human condition. Which is why he's still so relevant, because the human condition never changes :-)
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Myandra, Graceless Lady and Proud of it.
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He was a master of English literature.
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Evan Bell
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Thomas Jefferson High School!
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DTaylor 🌄🤓🌿🗳️
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Almost no one else could tell you the ending first, then spend the rest of the book telling you how it got there.
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Malkintrash
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Where's this from?
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Dal
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How??? How was he able to cut straight down to the very core of western imperialism in ONE SENTENCE????? i will never be a writer i quit i give up
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Paul Duane
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The combination of Vonnegut and 2000AD comics when i was a teenager is probably what formed most of my ideas, such as they are.
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Flakey Foont
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His best book. "The chief weapon of the sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was much too late, how heartless and greedy they were." Best description of the European invaders of the Americas I ever read.
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A total Mog
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I’m with you. Love his work
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Drew King
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"So be it"
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wr1t3 or l3f7
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I have no idea why but whenever I think of Kurt Vonnegut he's being played by Donald Sutherland when he was rocking that professorfro.
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Paul Söderlind
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NOYJ
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Love him.
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@nojustdan.bsky.social
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His greatness is evidenced by his timelessness.
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Bix
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During the height of the pandemic I’d tried to set myself a total (re)read project but I’ve always got so many new books to read I just couldn’t do it.
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Al Petterson
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... so long as they weren't *his* humans. Yeah.
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@scientificprogress.bsky.social
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Just as our governments! scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-plan-r...
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icenine like from the vonnegut book
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Always love to see Vonnegut get credit
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Beck Tiger
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'Do you really need all these Kurt Vonnegut books?' "But they self-reference each other!"
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cynthie
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Yes, he was good. On the level of Rod Sterling and others. Prophets who lived through the Great Depression, WW II, and tried to warn future generations of how easily history can and will repeat itself.
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CNY Big D
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I read everyone in the 70s. Have to reread.
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Jen Aside
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i miss him
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Jack likes films #JoinAUnion
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I really should read some more of his stuff. I loved Slaughterhouse-Five, but don't know anything else.
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🏳️⚧️Valkyrie Eleison
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'theoreticians' makes it perfect, up there with Joyce
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Mel
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"Galapagos"
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Rumpole the Brief
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My dad was at Shortridge HS with Vonnegut but a bit younger, my uncle was in classes with Kurt. Apparently he was always a few degrees off center but hints of genius too, even before the war. I read Vonnegut at my dad's funeral, he said everything so well.
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Dense
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Thomas Jefferson?
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