Mostly NP: Slaughterhouse as a major motif

[Joe Allonby]

And a little Orwell, too.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Early in John Updike's first novel, The Poorhouose Fair,
> from 1958, set in an old people's home,  one of the
> outspoken residents says: "Is he [the head administrator],
> putting tags on us se we can be trucked off to the slaughterhouse?"
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> so, there's Updike, Vonnegut, Coetzee , TRP (in Against the Day)
> and others, I'm sure.
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