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To: stockman_scott who wrote (49361)	6/19/2004 2:51:30 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) of 89467

Thanks scott, Kurt V has always been one of my favorite writers. And no chickenhawk is he. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ""Vonnegut's vision of the fantastic in daily life surely must have been influenced by some of the extraordinary events that occurred while he was still a young man, such as the suicide of his mother on Mother's Day 1944 while he was home on leave; his surviving as a prisoner of war the Allied firebombing that destroyed Dresden; the death of his sister Alice from cancer within hours of her husband's death in a train crash. His fiction struggles to cope with a world of tragi-comic disparities, a universe that defies causality, whose absurdity lends the fantastic equal plausibility with the mundane. Much the same outlook pervades the graphic artworks that have increasingly occupied Vonnegut in recent years."" vonnegut.com <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> His experiences shaped his view of the world as does it to all people, but he has the ability to recognize and define what he has been through far better than most people, which gives him a truer understanding of what we call "life". I just wish our current administration had a fraction of his experiences and curiosity and his ability to understand and define what they see and use that in their decision making.. Rather than taking their simplistic Neandrathal "cook book" approach to a increasingly complex world situation. A while back we listened to his Time Quake on audio book. What an enjoyable listen.. c

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