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Tough question. And one that Kurt Vonnegut worried brilliantly in Mother Night. Words, after all, have real consequences. The value of espionage, on the other hand, is never easily provable--especially in Campbell's case. When, years after the war, it is discovered that he is still alive, the Soviets, the Israelis and the American neo-Nazis all seek to use him for their own purposes, and there is no one to corroborate his story...
...Contraire to James Earl Jones, writer Kurt Vonnegut told the seniors at Syracuse University to slow down. "I had a good uncle named Alex, who said, when life was most agreeable--and it could be just a pitcher of lemonade in the shade--he would say, 'If this isn't nice, what is?'...Now, if he hadn't said that so regularly, maybe five or six times a month, we might not have paused to notice how rewarding life can be sometimes...
...although Hart, in the booklet, writes that Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man cannot be excluded from any 20th century American literature class, he adds later that it would not be enough to graduate from college having read Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut and Ann Beattie...
...KURT VONNEGUT...
Society will pay a price for that. As the mass audience disperses, there will be fewer cultural reference points, less common ground. "We have nothing to share now," laments Vonnegut. "There are thousands of things that a person sitting at home can see that nobody else is seeing. We have become lonelier because we no longer have a few central works of art to discuss...