A collection of articles defining our times.
The pages contain clickable links, don't let
the titles fool you, some of the best articles
have very non-descript titles and there are usually
more articles on the matters in the days and week
pages the links land on so it's a sort of treasure hunt
through history, Enjoy!
Readers of this blog (and
friends) will know my mother as the person whose ideas about parenting
included reading booze-drenched modernist classics to me when I was
eleven. So, it will not come as a surprise to anyone that when I was a
few years older than that, she dropped me off at a Kurt Vonnegut reading
while she went to a lecture in another part of town. I was a big
Vonnegut fan at the time and thrilled to be seeing him.
I’d
spent an entire summer lying on the couch with the headphones on reading
his books. Though I had not survived the bombing of Dresden, I felt
that, like Billy Pilgrim, I’d become “unstuck in time.” When Jehovah’s
Witnesses came to our door to discuss damnation I would tell them that I
was a “Bokonist” the religion practiced by the characters in Cat’s
Cradle. And it goes without saying that Kilgore Trout’s “career” as a
washed up homeless science fiction writer was one to which I very
seriously aspired.
But the biggest influence Vonnegut exacted
over me was at this reading, where he told the students in the audience
they didn’t need to go to school and could just as well drop out. READ MORE
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