Galapagos: A Novel (Delta Fiction)
Life was like that, Unk told himself tentatively—blanks and glimpses, and now and then maybe that awful flash of pain for doing something wrong.
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
The discovery of the chrono-synclastic infundibula said to mankind in effect: “What makes you think you’re going anywhere?”
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
Here is what the message said:
Kurt Vonnegut • Slaughterhouse-Five
There is an eminently useful thought experiment with which I suspect you are familiar. It goes something like, “What would an alien think of ____?” The blank is typically filled in with something like sex, or our destructive relationship to the natural world, or money. War is sometimes used to fill that blank, too. The point of the thought experime... See more