... ) by handicapping all those with talent, intellect, and beauty, can never help those with natural disabilities. For Vonnegut, fundamental human decency demands that society give such people more assistance in reaching up, aspiring to be more than the mere appendages of society. It is the exceptional people who improve society "the nonconformists, the dreamers, the different. Failure to ... says, that for many people is another word for a bathroom receptacle. While there are elements of science fiction in his stories, he is more clearly a fantasist "one who creates a believable but purel...

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