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Vonnegut goes down

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Submitted by Mike Smith, M.A., of Kelly's Cove, San Francisco (United States), Dec 8, 2005 at 02:36

Vonnegut, imprisoned for decades in Iowa, like Richard Rich's Wales, he from that flat dry fen strenuously and diligently attained immortality as my minor literary hero, his thoughts have seamlessly been bumper-sticker chunks of my personal philosophy as I quote "Ice Nine" and "Galapagos" and "Monkey House" and "Slaughterhouse Five"... Alas, with Time, he's gone to Hell in his distressingly pedestrian a-historical slavish sucking up to his cool friends, bad companions have led another astray, Mom's right again.
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Vonnegut sheds light, again [186 words]lonesome moderateJun 19, 2006 09:1147890
The greatest humanist of all [146 words]BradJun 15, 2006 13:3247721
POINT clarification [243 words]Adam TateJan 27, 2006 23:4332870
Vonnegut goes down [78 words]Mike Smith, M.A., of Kelly's Cove, San FranciscoDec 8, 2005 02:3629630

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