... but how soullessly and unceremoniously we discard humans. Vonnegut focuses on the death of a nation and its dream, a similar theme to that of another celebrated American author - Joseph Heller. Heller tells the story of the dissolution of a generation; those who not only risked their lives in World War Two ... lot of other baroque trash, a picture of a truncated pyramid with a radiant eye on top of it, like this:" at which point Vonnegut has sketched the unfinished pyramid on US bank notes (Barton's "A Pyramid of thirteen Strata"), implying the unfinished nature of the country, and cont...

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... salesman who Thompson had little relationship with, died after a lengthy period of fatigue brought on by a rare disease called Myasthenia Gravis (gonzo.org). He died at the age of 69, 15 days before Thompson birthday. After his father's death, Thompson began a crime spree that has lasted the rest of his ... vandalism and preceded to do $200 worth of damage to the jail (ejeanlive.com). In June, not much later that year, Thompson was arrested with two others for robbery. The other two arrested, Ralston Steenrod and Sam Stallings Jr. went free on the account that "they had ... started a re...

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