The American Dream

[rich]

speaking of great quotes

oh, that Lew Archer:

'The possibility jarred me. I had to admit to myself that I lived for the
nights like these, moving across the city's [Los Angeles] great broken
body, making connections among its millions of cells. I had a crazy wish or
fantasy that some day before I died, if I made all the right neural
connections, the city would come all the way alive. Like the Bride of
Frankenstein'-- The Instant Enemy

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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