Mark Vonnegut wrote the introduction to Armageddon in Retrospect, a posthumous collection of short pieces by his father, Kurt Vonnegut. One of the things Mark says is this:
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have. What occurs to people when they read Kurt is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.
The introduction is all I’ve read so far, so excuse me — gonna engage in some subversion. Gonna change the world a little bit.
B. Moore | 09-May-08 at 9:49 am | Permalink
i agree.
vonnegut is good for cleaning out odd corners of the mind… at the very least.