“Slapstick” – A Bird's Eye View of Fashion, Food, Travel, Culture, Beverage and Curiosity

RKS Literature: The Repetitive History of Earth (Kurt Vonnegut)

“If our descendants don’t study our times closely, they will find that they have again exhausted the planet’s fossil fuels, that they have again died by the millions of influenza and the Green Death, that the sky again has again been turned yellow by the propellants for underarm deodorants, that they have elected a senileContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Repetitive History of Earth (Kurt Vonnegut)”

RKS Literature: Powerless Old Poops and Young Psychopaths (Kurt Vonnegut)

“Captain O’Hare and I entered the palace between two lines of soldiers. They were an honor guard of some sort, I suppose. Each one held aloft a banner, which was embroidered with the totem of his artificial extended family – an apple, an alligator, the chemical symbol for lithium, and so on. It was suchContinue reading “RKS Literature: Powerless Old Poops and Young Psychopaths (Kurt Vonnegut)”

RKS Literature: Diplomatic Relations with the United States and China (Kurt Vonnegut)

“The miniaturization of human beings in China had progressed so far at that point, that their ambassador was only 60 centimeters tall. His farewell was polite and friendly. He said his country was severing relations simply because there was nothing going on in the United States which was of any interest to the Chinese atContinue reading “RKS Literature: Diplomatic Relations with the United States and China (Kurt Vonnegut)”

RKS Literature: Careful with Birthday Party Drinking (Kurt Vonnegut)

I must be very careful with my drinking at my birthday party, if I drank too much, I might spill the beans to everybody: That life awaits after death is infinitely more tiresome than this one.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slapstick”, 1976.

RKS Literature: Being Helpless and Vile Children Benefits the Staff at the Mansion

“They could be heroically Christian in their own eyes only if Eliza and I remained helpless and vile. If we became openly wise and self reliant, they would become our drab and inferior assistants. If we became capable of going out in the world, they might lose their apartments, their colour televisions, their illusions ofContinue reading “RKS Literature: Being Helpless and Vile Children Benefits the Staff at the Mansion”