And if so, what can we do?
2007-03-07 18:18:23 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
So it goes!
2007-03-08 09:44:40 · answer #1 · answered by CH 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
About what exactly? No-one's right all the time, but as far as it goes I've never found reason to actively disagree with anything in Mr Vonnegut's words.
I'll tell you something I think he's particularly right about, and that's his view of "family" in "Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!"
2007-03-08 03:47:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I tend to agree with modest proposer... Even when I saw him give a presentation 30 years ago (can you believe it?!?) Vonnegut seemed to be a bit of a throwback...
Maybe what you want is someone like Thomas Pynchon, or maybe a walk on the wild side with something really radical....
2007-03-08 03:53:58 · answer #3 · answered by Ms. Switch 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Kurt Vonnegut is toxic. He is also mostly right. What can we do? Once we are infected we become Killgore Trout. And live our passions in obscurity.
2007-03-08 02:28:26 · answer #4 · answered by tenbadthings 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He spoke at my graduation, and was so conventional in his views that I came to see his literary works mostly as clever, but trivial. "Harrison Bergeron" in "Welcome to the Monkey House" is interesting satire. Slaughterhouse 5 is good at what it does, but still slides into the conventions of its age.
___The question is posed as if Vonnegut is a futurist, but in ages of transitional turmoil, conventional extrapolative prediction doesn't count for squat.
2007-03-08 03:00:49 · answer #5 · answered by G-zilla 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kurt is always right and all we can do is go where he takes us.
2007-03-08 02:27:35 · answer #6 · answered by Rabble Rouser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is right. The Ramjet corporation owns everything.
There's nothing we can do about it.
2007-03-08 05:13:47 · answer #7 · answered by Benji 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He says that death is just a purple hum, nothing else, just a purple hum. Who am I to disagree?
2007-03-08 13:18:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋