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To: Webster Groves who wrote (8989)	9/23/2007 5:41:41 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 25737

From the prologue to "Mother Night", Vonnegut's masterful novel about propaganda, about an American tasked by his government to accept a Nazi job offer and become a propaganda broadcaster for the Nazis (while secretly coding his broadcasts with valuable military information to aid the Allied war effort). He became famous among the Nazis, and despised in America for his broadcasts: "We are what we pretend to be, therefore we must be careful what we pretend to be."