I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not.
Llituro [he/him, they/them] - 1mon
my favorite memory of going to a church was a time when the pastor decided to quote Vonnegut at length. of the two in isolation though, i prefer Vonnegut. breakfast of champions was a wild read though.
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gay_king_prince_charles [she/her, he/him] - 1mon
Breakfast of Champions was absolutely fantastic. I've never seen another author use callous bluntness so well, and I doubt I ever will.
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Llituro [he/him, they/them] - 1mon
i hadn't thought about it in quite some time, but it was a really radicalizing read for me as a high school student.
gay_king_prince_charles in main
Kurt Vonnegut on Veterans' Day
my favorite memory of going to a church was a time when the pastor decided to quote Vonnegut at length. of the two in isolation though, i prefer Vonnegut. breakfast of champions was a wild read though.
Breakfast of Champions was absolutely fantastic. I've never seen another author use callous bluntness so well, and I doubt I ever will.
i hadn't thought about it in quite some time, but it was a really radicalizing read for me as a high school student.
Yeah just about time to reread that I reckon
Vonnegut mentioned