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Letter Of Note: Kurt Vonnegut

Date: 10 Feb 2019
By: John Elkington
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Gaia forwarded me this link yesterday, featuring a letter Kurt Vonnegut wrote to students at Xavier High School. What a generous, playful genius.

Am reading his Cat’s Cradle at the moment – and periodically laughing out loud, something I very rarely do with a book. The first time I remember doing so was with Joseph Heller Catch 22. Strange, given that both books came out of super-dark times.

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Like so many things in my life, blog entries blur the boundaries between the personal and the professional. As explained on the Home Page, the website and the blog are part platform for ongoing projects, part autobiography, and part accountability mechanism.

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