Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.6/22/2023 humanity, and however you want to poison their minds, it's presumably to encourage them to make a better world.” Bottom line for me, that’s what KV’s writings are always about: Humanity. And it's been the university experience that taught me that there is a very good reason, that you catch people before they become generals and presidents and so forth and you poison their minds with. why are we teaching people to write books when presidents and senators do not read them, and generals do not read them. About writing itself, KV once said in an interview, “Well, I've worried some about, you know, why write books. Not only can he write his butt off, he has the absolutely, incredible talent to hold up this mirror for all of us to see the travesty of so much we hold sacred in this American Experience and then laugh at the same time that we cry at our reflection. When picking up a book, one can only hope that the author can write the surprise comes when an author’s contributions transcend what is on the printed page. He is and will probably always remain one of my all-time, favorite authors. To say that I worship at the alter of Kurt Vonnegut would be more mawkish than overstated.
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