Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students awaken at 6 a.m. and do their laundry and personal chores before sitting down to a breakfast of steamed bread, porridge and tea. Depending on weather and seasonal conditions, their days are about evenly divided between study sessions, field work and paramilitary drills. After supper there are group activities such as singing, dancing and cultural programs. Lights are out at 10 p.m. Men and women live separately. Asked if sex was ever a problem, one cadre laughed and said: "I haven't heard of such a thing...
...trainers' terminology, they back off their feed. After the Derby, Laurin watched the groom prepare Secretariat's usual supper-oats cooked into a mash, plus carrots and some vitamins and minerals, plus some "sweet feed," grains coated with molasses to provide the rough equivalent of a candied breakfast cereal. The mixture filled the better part of a big tub, and Laurin said, "He won't finish that in three days." An hour and a half later the tub was empty...
...Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut...
...silly ideas, which, despite their sometimes tenuous connection to the story, he never fails to explore. Many of his ideas are social criticism derived from the absurdities and idiosyncrasies of American experience. In the past, there were funny. I was funny. But when I'm not bored by Breakfast of Champions, it makes me want to cry. I'm just not funny anymore...
When I'm wishing I were back in his novels, undisturbed by the knowledge that I'm a fictitious character who could be leading a less miserable life, I sometimes wonder about Kurt Vonnegut's Creator. What could possibly have motivated Him to have Vonnegut write Breakfast of Champions? What foul soul, mortal or immortal, would allow me to be so maliciously maligned? A thought just struck me. Perhaps my Creator has won his own freedom; maybe he has a free will. Then maybe someday he will come up with something better than this nauseating novel...