Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SALINGER--Acid isn't always apocalyptic. Sometimes it can be as calm, an knowing, as cozy and full of detail as a Salinger story. Here is the revelation that concludes Zooey...
Throughout Vonnegut's book there is a persistent and unavoidable sense of preoccupation similar to the feeling of obligation we now feel towards strike activities. What he is obligated to in Slaughterhouse-Five is death. This isn't a very easy thing for a fatalist to be obligated to Fatalism (that is, the belief that the "reasons" why things happen to us are a series of random events beyond our control) serves us particularly well as a transition--to, for example, move us philosophically from event to event in our existence. When someone's existence terminates in the book...
This means that death isn't an "event" that "happens" to you. But you death is part of the way you're defined, part of the way you always exist. If you think of yourself as being "alive" at this particular moment, that's just because you are visiting this part...
...They've never gone up on my rent, I don't know why. Of course that's all it's worth, it's a crummy apartment, a falling-apart building. If Harvard tore down this building I wouldn't know where to go...there just isn't the housing for most of us working people. This a lower middle-class building. Where would...
...them you may either flash the warming smile as if to say, "Isn't jogging refreshing and aren't a lot of people missing something," or else you stare him down, a warning to look out for you in the Marathon because "look how fast I'm runing without even breathing and I can go so much faster." At any rate, you contemplate the runner, figure htat he'll be at the starting line, and wonder if you can beat him. Man is a competitive animal, remember...