Oh, no. Vonnegut's dead.
So it goes. Damn it.
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This morning I took our senior cat Charlie to the vet for his monthly arthritis shot. L. ordered an induction range (on sale!) for our retir...
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As I said on New Year's Day, one of my projects for the year is to keep track of all the reading done by the characters in the fiction t...
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Books Read in 2022 (In backwards order) The Snow Hare. Paul Lichtarowicz “He’s Very Well Read.” Catherine Lacey A Psalm for the Wild-Built....
"While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
ReplyDeleteSo the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
-- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
Thanks for that, Margaret.
ReplyDeleteI was so saddened by Vonnegut's death. He was one of my favorites...and one of the good ones.
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