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America's most easily understood novelist is back. And forth. In his new book, Kurt Vonnegut once again traverses time and space, filling the pages. With short sentences. And placebo profundities: "To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life." And bromides: "the witching hour," "laughingstock," "dumb luck," "social leper...
...amendment would extend constitutional protections "to the unborn from the moment of conception...
Kahn's sunshine scenario has no room for the critics he labels neo-liberal symbolists. Again, the author is soft on specifics. His futurology appears to be identifying a group as yet unborn. Perhaps "neoliberal" is simply a term invented to oppose "neo-conservative." The derisive use of "symbolists" suggests that the author himself does not communicate in symbols. He does. What, in fact, are words and pseudomathematical formulations like...
...responsibility, he concludes: "The killing of Bonnie Garland, first by Richard Herrin and then again by a legal and cultural process . . . endangers us all. In our compassion for the criminal, we must remain vigilant in defense of the social for the sake of those innocents living and yet extreme unborn." - By Michael Demarest
...meaning is to be found in the fact that it occurs in a biological and social world that survives." Were that world to perish, it would be "the second death"-the death of the species, not just of the earth's population on doomsday, but of countless unborn generations. They would be spared literal death but would nonetheless be victims-in his view the most important victims-of a nuclear...