RIP Vonnegut. To pen humor about the streets of Dresden, where you emerged as a POW to witness the devastation wrought by your own countrymen, is to elevate humor to its original state as a foil to great tragedy.
"She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies right away."
- Slaughterhouse Five
Don't forget his masterwork of short fiction, Harrison Bergeron. Sheer brilliance, that fully captured the futility (and evil) of striving for equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE HARRISON BERGERON! I love most things Vonnegut. David, Alon, BOTH of you read this immediately if not sooner:
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That's a good one.
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