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A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut

   And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
   So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Essay (2004-08-06), “I Love You, Madame Librarian,” In These Times Magazine, Vol. 29, No. 20 (2004-08-30)

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People and books that helped form who I am today:

#GrahamGreene
#JohnUpdike
#WalkerPercy
#kurtvonnegutjr
#JohnIrving
#RalphEllison
#HermannHesse
#LorenEiseley
#JamesBaldwin
#JohnSteinbeck
#RayBradbury
#FrankHerbert
#StrangerInAStrangeLand
#MalcomX
#KimStanleyRobinson
#JulianJaynes
#SomeTimesAGreatNotion
#WendellBerry
#WhatArePeopleFor
#EdwardAbbey
#DesertSolitaire
#TomRussell
#CarlHiaasen
#MichaelPollan
#BotanyOfDesire
#PattiSmith
#MichaelStipe
#DavidSedaris
#CormacMcCarthy

"Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. published this day in 1969.
#KurtVonnegutJr #SlaughterhouseFive

A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut

The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Slaughterhouse-Five, ch. 2 (1969)

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“Between Time and Timbuktu” (1971) is based on the writing and philosophy of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The screenplay was written by David Odell of “The Muppet Show” fame with contributions from comedy duo Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding and Vonnegut himself. The screenplay combined with images from the TV film were released as a 1972 novelization. You can read that for free here (https://archive.org/details/betweentimetimbu00vonn).
#LaEsoterica #BetweenTimeAndTimbuktu #KurtVonnegutJr

“The Shape of Stories” originated as the basis for Kurt Vonnegut’s master thesis in anthropology at the University of Chicago in the late 1940s. It was rejected as the thesis committee felt Vonnegut’s theory was too simplistic; He felt that the committee thought his theory "looked like too much fun". Vonnegut would go on to leave ABD (All But Dissertation) until the university accepted his 1963 novel “Cat's Cradle” in lieu of his master's thesis.
#LaEsoterica #KurtVonnegutJr

Born on this day in 1922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."
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Vince is back with our Weekly Picks just in time for your weekend reading!

Featuring:

📖 Slaughterhouse-Five by #KurtVonnegutJr
📖 The Gales of November by #JohnUBacon
📖 The Ranger by #AceAtkins

Read all of Vince’s picks online at our site. 📚

#reading #books #getnotified
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https://www.booknotification.com/blog/weekly-picks/book-notification-weekly-picks-19/

"Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. published this day in 1969.
#KurtVonnegutJr #SlaughterhouseFive

Born on this day in 1922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The greatest opening line for any novel can be attributed to Vonnegut's 1969 novel "Slaughterhouse-Five". "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."
#KurtVonnegutJr

"Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. published this day in 1969.
#KurtVonnegutJr #SlaughterhouseFive

Born on this day in 1922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The greatest opening line for any novel can be attributed to Vonnegut's 1969 novel "Slaughterhouse-Five". "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."
#KurtVonnegutJr

This disclaimer from the opening of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater," is just ... well, perfectly Vonnegut.

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. being sadly accurate in 1965's "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater":

"When the United States of America, which was meant to be a Utopia for all, was less than a century old, Noah Rosewater and a few men like him demonstrated the folly of the Founding Fathers in one respect: those sadly recent ancestors had not made it the law of the Utopia that the wealth of each citizen should be limited." (1/3)

#KurtVonnegut #KurtVonnegutJr #SocialCommentary #NothingChanges

#kurtvonnegutjr #quote #mindfulness

We could have saved it, but we were too darn cheap and lazy.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Fates Worse Than Death

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I have difficulty keeping any editions of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. books in stock, but have recently acquired two collections, including these '70s Dells. If you're looking, now's the time to stop in!

7/28/23 Open 6-10p. No open containers please.

#DaytonOhio #BrickAndMortar #UsedBookStore #KurtVonnegut #KurtVonnegutJr @bookstodon

Richard Powers

#Illustration #KurtVonnegutJr #RichardPowers #ScienceFiction

"Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. published this day in 1969.
#KurtVonnegutJr #SlaughterhouseFive

#Mattatoion5 o #LaCrociatadeiBambini #DanzaobbligataconlaMorte di #KurtVonnegutJr Ci sono molti modi per raccontare la devastazione fisica e morale che una guerra lascia in chi vi partecipa e sopravvive Vonnegut lo fa strutturando i suoi ricordi (visse in prima persona, durante la #SecondaGuerraMondiale, il bombardamento di #Dresda che nella notte fra il 9 e il 10 marzo 1945 fece quasi il doppio delle vittime di quello... http://www.valeriotagliaferri.it/?p=1104 #mastolibro #mastolibri #libro #libri #leggere

#Books and me:

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail of '72 - #HunterSThompson
Snow Crash - #NealStephenson
I Am Legend - #RichardMatheson
The Baroque Cycle - #NealStephenson
Perdido Street Station - #ChinaMiéville
Under The Banner of Heaven - #JonKrakauer
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West - #CormacMcCarthy
Slaughterhouse-Five - #KurtVonnegutJr
The Crying of Lot 49 - #ThomasPynchon
If He Hollers Let Him Go - #ChesterHimes

I could go on and on....

#introduction part three-reading. My favorite authors are #kurtvonnegutjr , #tomrobbins #terrypratchett #douglasadams , #isaacasimov #JohnKennedyToole, and #JDSalinger. I don't have as much time to read novels these days other than reading with my kids, so a lot of #yalit like #JKRowling (f-ck #transphobia ), #PhillipPullman, #CSLewis and #JRRTolkien . I also was into the #wheeloftime series. But these days at least %50 of what I read are articles posted on social media

For more about my interests, let me direct you to a series of hashtags.
#wildlife
#dogs
#FreeWill
#philosophy (probably got that^^)
#equality
#prochoice
#VeteranForPeace
#science
#HorrorFiction
#ScienceFiction
#NatureWriting
#lgbtq

Gone but not forgotten
#BarryLopez
#KurtVonnegutJr
#UmbertoEco
#GoreVidal
#GeneWolfe
#IsaacAsimov