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Wednesday! Jan 22 2003 // 12:48 pm //

‘I mean: Madame Bovary, how provincial can you get?’

Vonnegut at 80
an interview at AlterNet.org

war, jesus, radicalism, and of course, his writing.

“…Socialism is idealistic. Think of Eugene Debs from Terre Haute. What Debs said echoes the Sermon on the Mount: ‘As long as there’s a lower class I am in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I am of it. As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.’

Now why can’t the religious right recognize that as a paraphrase of the Sermon on the Mount?”

a very good question, Mr. Vonnegut.

[via kevan]