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To: TH who wrote (65093)4/12/2007 9:12:29 AM
From: LTK007  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116555
 
TH:<<The guy was an absolute original>> Was he ever! My wife and i decided we were a duprass back in 1968 after having read Cat's Cradle, and that is how it has worked out--and in the book it creates the whole "religion" of Bokonism, what a thinker:).
In 1967 i read in Sirens of Titans , the writer saying (i paraphrase) the human race had lost it's way by thinking the answers would be found by flying into outer space when it was really inner space they should have been looking to find the answer.
That passage was to effect my whole life.:)Max

p.s. i gather in his last writing he rips asunder Bush.
i just now grabbed this quote from him in the year 2003, before the Iraq war started.
In bold is interviewer's questions and italics, his answers.

That said, do you have any ideas for a really scary reality TV show?

“C students from Yale.” It would stand your hair on end.

What targets would you consider fair game for a satirist today?

Assholes.