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Check out Vonnegut’s Interview for Stop Smiling Magazine. As is the case with most of his interviews, it is littered with Vonnegut-isms. This is what I found in there:
I’m dumbfounded about what happened to my country. But as I say regularly in lectures, you practice an art to make your soul grow, not to make a career, be famous or be rich. It’s the process of becoming.
And Vonnegut on the current state of public education in the United States:
The classes are too big. My definition of a utopia is very simple: classes of 15 or smaller – out of this, a great nation can be built. Classes have 35 students, for Christ’s sake. The class ideally should be a family. Let’s take care of each other. There’s a person who can’t get the hang of calculus? Someone should say, “Here, let me show you.” A class of 35? Poor teacher.
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I found this while doing some research for my IOP and thought it might be an article of interest. It’s a paper in PDF format discussing the possibility of mental time travel and that it is a part of the “human cognitive repertoire.” While the paper is a bit long at 14 pages, it is a very interesting read; kind of makes Vonnegut seem way ahead of his time.
http://homepage.mac.com/philipgerrans/page1/assets/CLEANMTT2.pdf