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Slapstick

By Kurt Vonnegut

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| Paperback | 9780440180098

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Book Description

Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision seen  through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan  (and last President of the United States), a wickedly  irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of  today's follies. But even the end of  life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Vonnegut's pen into Continue

Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision seen  through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan  (and last President of the United States), a wickedly  irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of  today's follies. But even the end of  life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Vonnegut's pen into  hilarious farce--a final slapstick that may be the  Almighty's joke on us all.

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  • So It Went

    Much has been written about the reasons for Vonnegut’s appeal to the first television generation. The time-tripping, the McLuhanite non-“linearity,” the pacifism, the jokes, the sci-fi inventiveness, the quick sympathy for life’s losers and has-beens ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010

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    "Oh a sleeping drunkard up in central park
    Or the lion hunter in the jungle dark

    Or the chinese dentist or the british queen
    They all fit together in the same machine

    Nice, nice, very nice
    Nice, nice, very nice
    So many people in the same device

    Oh a whirling der ... (continue)

    "Oh a sleeping drunkard up in central park
    Or the lion hunter in the jungle dark

    Or the chinese dentist or the british queen
    They all fit together in the same machine

    Nice, nice, very nice
    Nice, nice, very nice
    So many people in the same device

    Oh a whirling dervish and a dancing bear
    Or a ginger rogers and a fred astaire

    Or a teenage rocker or the girls in france
    Yes, we all are partners in this cosmic dance

    Nice, nice, very nice
    Nice, nice, very nice
    So many people in the same device

    I wanted all things to make sense
    So wed be happy instead of tense

    Oh a sleeping drunkard up in central park
    Or the lion hunter in the jungle dark

    Or the chinese dentist or the british queen
    They all fit together in the same machine

    Nice, nice, very nice
    Nice, nice, very nice
    So many people in the same device
    So many people in the same device"

    These is what came to my mind while reading the book.

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