timelighter

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[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

No there wasn't.

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

The cosmogony in this comic is pretty close to what I believe, lol

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think the idea is that it's a bad dream for him because he won't make it as a musician

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I've read 12 of Vonnegut's books. He is fundamentally a social progressive, but there are also some moments in some 70s novels (particularly Breakfast of Champions) that I find homophobic. He also has a habit of making women either passive pleasers or full nutso.

But he also explicitly and repeatedly pushes kindness, egalitarian social justice, and willingness to change.

I highly highly recommend every human read Mother Night.

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's not his views... that's from an essay where he's parodying the mainstream ultrasimplification of political alignment.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/cold-turkey

You left out some language that I think clears up his ironic tone:

If you want to take my guns away from me, and you’re all for murdering fetuses, and love it when homosexuals marry each other, and want to give them kitchen appliances at their showers, and you’re for the poor, you’re a liberal.

If you are against those perversions and for the rich, you’re a conservative.

What could be simpler?

Totally changes it, doesn't it?

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

He also said his fatal mistake was making one of the tools too closely resemble a saw

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (8 children)

"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."

Kurt Vonnegut

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Olive olives

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I mean, yeah. You never make a glue glove?

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

That is a fake narrative invented by right wingers.

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Someone explain ballplay to me

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being beaten to a bloody pulp is fine and dandy, but how am I going to earn my money back?

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