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With Jailbird Vonnegut finally succeeeds in meshing the best elements of his previous novels. Starbuck's screwed-up, out-of-control life is grotesquely fictitious, yes; but Vonnegut makes it clear that there, but for the obvious absurdity of the storyline, go we. In Jailbird, Vonnegut's tenth novel, Kilgore Trout a.k.a. Starbuck goes beyond and back-he visits the depths of Harvardiana and survives. The story is inspirational, the Vonnegutisms ("Small world") are typically comforting, and his black humor is as sordid as ever. Jailbird will make you eager for more Vonnegut, and with any luck, Kilgore Trout will...
...defect. I don't know the ideology: It's about suffering. How to end suffering. And it ends in suffering...Yes, it's strange to live in a country where there are still heroes. Like anyone else, I do what I can. I am teaching them to walk again, at Baragwanath Hospital. They put one foot before the other...
...Yes. I read somewhere that someone said it was a political compromise. The first time I heard that was when I read it in the press. I was very surprised. I never thought it was a compromise. Let's look at it from a practical point of view. What had been the ingredients I had been dealing with as a real humanitarian, because that is what I am, and a man of compassion. I was dealing with a factual situation of twenty thousand squatters and their living conditions in that squatters camp were not good. In addition, there are more...
...Yes, I read about it, but if it's coloured people, it's not in my province. I can tell you that I don't take the view that it is a good and healthy thing to move people against their will...
...Yes, they can help by understanding and taking an interest, an enlightened interest in South Africa. I think more understanding honestly would make a big difference. People are only people and when they are praised and when they feel their efforts are worthwhile and being appreciated, then it surely makes it easier to change. It enhances the process. When they're being hammered at all the time it makes them more resistant to change. Think of the American situation in the last 15 to 20 years and I think you'll appreciate that this is not a situation that...