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
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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.
I LOVE HARRISON BERGERON! I love most things Vonnegut. David, Alon, BOTH of you read this immediately if not sooner:
http://www.lib.ru/RAZNOE/long.txt
That's a good one.
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