Word: trout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KILGORE TROUT IS BACK. He's a little older and a little more tired, but he's survived and is among us once again...
Kurt Vonnegut's perennial semi-autobiographical protagonist returns this time as Walter F. Starbuck, and he is a Harvard man. He is so much a Harvard man, in fact, that were Vonnegut less obvious in writing his titles this book might well be called Kilgore Trout Goes to Harvard. Vonnegut's hero still peacefully accepts life's highs and lows, but Harvard has changed him: the lows seem a little lower, the highs a little higher, and the accepting a little harder...
Like most of Vonnegut's Kilgore Trout permutations, Walter Starbuck wants nothing more than to live simply in a small house with a nice wife and some respectful children. What thwarts his dreams, as usual, is America's tangled red-tape bureaucracy and cut-throat competition, epitomized in Jailbird by the RAMJAC corporation, a sprawling conglomerate that controls almost all of the world's large companies...
...look how it feels?a huge, monumental thing" by means of a dark red filter. "Visualization"?deciding in advance how a photo will look, rather than clicking away in the hope of a fortunate accident?is the essence of Adams' work. It is the difference between approaching a trout with a dry fly and dynamiting the brook...
...fences. In it waits a squad of small boys cradling large fish nets. As each chicken takes flight squawking in protest and spraying feathers, a boy dashes along its trajectory to net the flyer at its point of touchdown with the skill of an Izaak Walton landing a plump trout...