Please Read the Vonnegut Piece

[indigobusiness]

posted earlier.

It can be accessed via this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1585354#

http://sludgereport.blogspot.com/

[PragMantisT]

1. A real Genius!

How can he write such great books and let them be turned into such shitty movies?

[indigobusiness]

3. Difficult to translate, I reckon.

There is hope that it will happen.

http://sludgereport.blogspot.com/

[indigobusiness]

24. And many good books

are made into bad flicks.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

2. Done

Loved it.

[liberalitch]

4. KV is a brilliant, brilliant....

man...
His best?
toss up between Mother Night and Cat's Cradle

[indigobusiness]

11. Agreed, And those Guinness commercials are great

http://sludgereport.blogspot.com/

[truth2power]

36. Sirens of Titan

"Anyone who has traveled this far on a fool's errand has no choice but to uphold the honor of fools by completing the errand."

- Salo of Tralfamodore

[Kazak]

My favorite too...

Just finished reading it for the second time...perfect!

[Flubadubya]

5. Someting wrong with the 'inthesetimes.com' site...

Can bring up main page in Google cache, but the website/server appears to be down.

[indigobusiness]

7. It figures...

dang.

[indigobusiness]

26. I'll send the piece

to anyone that asks.

[rucky]

6. The ONLY chance we have at healing this country

lies in the rise of a Religious Left movement & emphasis on the Sermon on the Mount. like it or not, this Jew realizes we ARE a Christian nation (for the time being) and the only words people will trust come from up above. Let the true Christians transition us back to being a compassionate & tolerant nation. Let's use the word of the Bible & the authority it carries to get through to the fanatics who have strayed.

WTG, Vonnegut! He's like Jesus to me :)

check out this site: www.sojourners.com

[indigobusiness]

8. Thanks, but I wonder if he is like Jesus to

Jesus?



http://sludgereport.blogspot.com/

[indigobusiness]

18. no offense

intended

[indigobusiness]

29. any chance

is worth a shot.

[blindpig]

9. thank you very much

KV has been my guru for 30 some years but I haven't seen much of him in recent years. I'd thought he'd given up. I've gotten more morality out of his books than I got from 10 years of Catholic schooling, that's for sure. So happy to see he's still fighting the fight.
His addiction analogy is absolutely spot on, though I fear that even most folks here cannot really deal with it on a personal level, cannot see what's going on and the future that we are making. Glad I didn't have children.

[indigobusiness]

23. you're quite welcome

speaking of children...keeping our Sages in the pages opens their eyes.

http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/

[tom_paine]

10. Man, the site is down

I want to read it so badly, but it isn;t there. I wonder if Kurt got the site overwhelmed with hits.

[indigobusiness]

12. it is up, now

http://sludgereport.blogspot.com/

[BeFree]

14. Just read it, here is the link

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/cold_turkey

Addicted to oil is our problem. Why else would we repeat the middle age's history?

Also: Gotte love the idea of ditching the Ten C's and going with the christian beattitudes. Makes better sense.

[indigobusiness]

27. it's wonky

but up

[troublemaker]

31. S

[indigobusiness]

32. S

what?

[Kanary]

13. Twice got that annoying message

"performed illegal operation", so it's not something I can get from the site you linked.

Is there any other place to find it? I'd really like to read it!

Thanks!

Kanary

[indigobusiness]

15. Try this link

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/cold_turkey

if it won't work, try the In These Times mainpage.

Good luck.

[indigobusiness]

16. try this

http://www.inthesetimes.com/

look around

[indigobusiness]

17. I sent you the text

em

[Kanary]

19. Got it! Thanks so much!

Really is a good article.......I'm going over it again, now.

Thanks again.

Kanary

[immune2irony]

20. Genius?

He just reduces things to the most simplistic take possible. I know that's his style, but this is only a little better than reading something by a jaded teenager.

[indigobusiness]

21. Simplistic?

Hardly.
Maybe some of the nuance and subtlety is lost on you.
Or maybe you confuse concise as simplistic.

[indigobusiness]

22. kick

x

[myrna minx]

25. Thank you so much for this link.

Vonnegut is one of my heros. Thanks. :toast:

[indigobusiness]

28. A true American

hero.

[indigobusiness]

30. has everybody read it?

there will now be a quiz.

[spanone]

33. I love Kurt Vonnegut. Indianapolis loves Kurt! The world loves.....

[Kazak]

34. Absolutely love Vonnegut!

Will we see another book?

And, someone should make a *good* film adaptation of The Sirens Of Titan.

[Kazak]

35. Kick

:kick:

Great piece!

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38. kick

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