Word: vonnegut
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...Jailbird, Vonnegut...
Clearly unwilling to preach about "moral dignity," Vonnegut instead spoke in parables and metaphors. Channing lived in America's close-knit "folk society," Vonnegut said. It was an "American Atlantis, swamped by the waves of immigrants...
...Channing's Cambridge, people needed permission from their minister to believe that Harvard was not the center of the universe, Vonnegut said. "Some people still have that problem," he added...
...call the planet dignified, we have to treat it with dignity, the way Channing treated his parishioners," Vonnegut said. "And we still have our missiles if my suggestion is no good," he deadpanned...
...Later Vonnegut, who claimed a history of agnosticism, briefly discussed religion, calling it an escape from loneliness...