“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”
The late Kurt Vonnegut quoted by ellagood @ Gawker.
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The most useful literary experience in my last three semesters in a rural high school was heading to the library and reading Slaghterhouse Five and Cat’s Cradle – for th eamazement that the library even had those titles in the stacks and for the cast it put in my eye toward society.
I think I’ll be getting Slaughterhouse or his nonfiction essays for reading this weekend. Hard to believe I never read him before, occasional articles aside.
Stolen off Doonesbury today:
“If flying-saucer creatures or angels or whatever were to come here in a hundred years, say, and find us gone like the dinosaurs, what might be a good message for humanity to leave for them, maybe carved in great big letters on a Grand Canyon wall?
Here is this old poop’s suggestion: WE PROBABLY COULD HAVE SAVED OURSELVES, BUT WERE TOO DAMNED LAZY TO TRY VERY HARD…”