
The Sirens of Titan


They knew that it was essentially a liquid which could be induced to flow slowly toward cooing and light.
Kurt Vonnegut • Slaughterhouse-Five
He told us that one reason he and his friends wanted to start the commune and learn to “live off the land” in a simple way was that “we want to be the last people on earth.” Vonnegut said, “Isn’t that kind of a stuck-up kind of thing to want to be?” In the way he spoke and the way he wrote, Vonnegut was always coming up with the plain-spoken words
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