Mostly NP: Slaughterhouse as a major motif

[Robin Landseadel]

Not to mention "Broom of the System."
On Feb 16, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Joe Allonby wrote:

> And a little Orwell, too.
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>> 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 so we can be trucked off to the slaughterhouse?"
>>
>> so, there's Updike, Vonnegut, Coetzee , TRP (in Against the Day)  
>> and others, I'm sure.