RIP Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut, Counterculture’s Novelist, Dies - New York Times:

"Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan. He was 84..."

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My favorite short story by Vonnegut first Published in the collection Welcome to the Monkey House is Harrison Bergeron
and begins in this amusing way:

THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.[1]

It's a futuristic satire that the human spirit can prevail in spite of an overly intrusive government and the reign of mediocrity.

Harrison Bergeron's summary in Wikipedia

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