1. 19 March 2006

    Slaughterhouse 5

    Kurt Vonnegut

    991 days ago

    I read catch-22 over christmas, and still haven’t come up with anything to write about it. Slaughterhouse five feels a lot the same way to me – there just isn’t anything to break down and atomize – the book needs to be taken as a whole.

    But I’d say go read it if you haven’t already, I started it yesterday afternoon and finished it up today after lunch. Quick and good read.

  2. 23 December 2005

    1077 days ago

    What is the response in Washington? They guess otherwise. What good is an education? The boisterous guessers are still in charge—the haters of information. And the guessers are almost all highly educated people. Think of that. They have had to throw away their educations, even Harvard or Yale educations, to become guessers. If they didn’t do that, there is no way their uninhibited guessing could go on and on and on.

    Please, don’t you do that. But let me warn you, if you make use of the vast fund of knowledge now available to educated persons, you are going to be lonesome as hell. The guessers outnumber you—and now I have to guess—about ten to one.

    Kurt Vonnegut, Your Guess Is as Good as Mine

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