Word: vonnegut
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...with no excessive charity. Chaos? Yes. Senselessness? Yes. Disintegration and despair? Be the author's guest. The dour view itself is not remarkable. Well-wrought chaos and subtly evoked senselessness have never been in such abundant literary supply. A reader thinks, with varying respect, of Mailer, Heller, Vonnegut, Cheever, Barth...
...truly declined to the point of broad collapse, the calamity itself should be enough to occupy generations of novelists. But no; barely nine years after Joseph Heller's Catch-22 bemused readers with loony proof that war is an insane farce, the somewhat similar propositions of Kurt Vonnegut can be read with mild impatience. Vonnegut is simply not saying enough. There is something mean and gritty in the two-transistor collective consciousness that asks, "O.K., O.K., the center cannot hold. Now what...
...passed his 21st birthday last October, Brody came into an inheritance from his grandfather, John F. Jelke, who became a millionaire producing Good Luck margarine. * Brody came on with a whacked-out messianism, a combination of Terry Southern's Guy Grand in The Magic Christian and Kurt Vonnegut's saintly, alcoholic millionaire in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Brody passed out $100 bills to children in Harlem, laid $500 on a heroin addict. "You want love? You'll get love," he proclaimed. "Money. Cars. If you want my death, you can have that...
...Hoenikker invented an "unnatural" water called "Ice Nine" in the book Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. "Ice Nine" propagated itself by feeding on natural water and eventually ended up making the earth uninhabitable. The creation of "polywater" [Dec. 19] by the Russians and its subsequent re-creation in the U.S. and Britain bring to mind the dangers of such a substance if it should be let loose. Vonnegut's novel begins to sound like chilling prophecy...
...Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut...