... now, make references to Vonnegut's writings. The Dave Matthew's Band borrows a line (" eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die-) from Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most successful and well known novels. In addition to music; television and movies also make reference to Vonnegut and his writing. ... either were from or had family living in Indianapolis, Indiana, where Vonnegut was born on Armistice Day in 1922 and grew up. In Cat's Cradle, one of the characters is thrown out of Cornell University. This is interesting because Kurt Vonnegut attended Cornell and because of lack of ....

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... sacks of birdshot to weigh them down. Thus, in the race of life, all Americans are handicapped so that no one must ever feel ugly, stupid, or "like something the cat dragged in."" Diana Moon Glampers is the Handicapper General, whose job is to track down violators of the law and rid society of those who menace the average, the inadequate ... defy the laws of gravity by seeming to float as easily as he was able to toss aside his shackles and handicaps. Vonnegut's outstanding stylistic trait is his use of black humor "humor that relies on the use of darker, more pessimistic, even depressi...

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