![]() To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain't no disgrace to be poor, but might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. His opening line was this one:Īmerica is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. Campbell had been a fairly well-known playwright at one time. ![]() While the British colonel set Lazzaro's broken arm and mixed plaster for the cast, the German major translated out loud passages from Howard W. If what was written in it of America was true then, my impression on current evidence is that it is still true today. Slaughterhouse-Five was published in 1969, forty years ago. ![]() ![]() It's one of the passages that has most stayed with me. The tenor of the recent resistance to public health care in the States (people fiercely arguing against their own welfare) has reminded me of a passage from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. ![]()
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