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30 01 2003

Thu, 30 Jan 2003

How did I wind up here?

My daughter Lily, for an example close to home, who has just turned 20, finds herself--as does George W. Bush, himself a kid--an heir to a shockingly recent history of human slavery, to an AIDS epidemic and to nuclear submarines slumbering on the floors of fjords in Iceland and elsewhere, crews prepared at a moment’s notice to turn industrial quantities of men, women and children into radioactive soot and bone meal by means of rockets and H-bomb warheads.

Writer Kurt Vonnegut, after 80 years, still has the capacity to wonder about mundane matters. posted at: 01:48 | path: /en/quotations | permanent link



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