One of my favorite authors, Kurt Vonnegut, has passed away.
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Vonnegut had a way of showing the absurdity in history like no other.
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
~ Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Update: How to Write with Style (via David L. Farquhar)
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