By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Palm Sunday is a self-portrait by means of an American genius. Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant knowledge approximately his favourite comedians, kingdom tune, a lifeless pal, a useless marriage, and numerous cockamamie features of his all-too human trip via lifestyles. it's a paintings that resonates with Vonnegut’s singular voice: the magic sound of a born-story teller spell binding us with fact.
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Certainly. Granola never harmed anybody, nor the birds and bees—not to mention milk. God is unknowable, but nature is explaining herself all the time. What has she told us so far? That blacks are obviously inferior to whites, for one thing, and intended for menial work on white man’s terms. This clear lesson from nature, we should remind ourselves from time to time, allowed Thomas Jefferson to own slaves. Imagine that. “What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.
This was in Indianapolis, the world’s largest city not on a navigable waterway. Cousin Richard telephoned back. He was thrilled. He said that Bernard’s signals were loud and clear simply everywhere on the radio band, drowning out music or news or drama, or whatever the commercial stations were putting out at the time. • • • This is certainly that kind of masterpiece, and a new name should be created for such an all-frequencies assault on the sensibilities. I propose the name blivit. ” I would not mind if books simpler than this one, but combining fiction and fact, were also called blivits.
Uncle John’s conclusion to this prologue is worth setting down here: “The two world wars in which the United States was arrayed against Germany were painful experiences for German-Americans. They hated to be obliged to fight their racial cousins, but they did so, and it is significant that of the millions of German descendants in the United States during those dreadful wars there was not one case of treason. “The Germans, while loving the country of their origin, did not approve of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his warlords, nor Hitler and his wretched Nazis.