The American Dream

[Mark Kohut]

Why isn't that last sentence as oft-quoted as the famous Amer Dream
sentence at the End of Gatsby?

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:00 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth
> controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely
> inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created.
> Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they
> asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved
> henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for
> committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American
> dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of
> cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun."
> -- Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, 1965
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