Slaughterhouse//BtZ

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 I will give it a go soon.  Odd how I can't remember the book though
I've read it so many times. Like Blue Beard, a novel that may be
alluded to in Bleeding Edge. The Montauk stuff

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is anything concrete known about Pynchon having read or enjoyed Vonnegut's
> book? He must've read it before GR.
>
> A few weeks ago I recommended reading it alongside BtZ and I repeat that.
> It's very fast.
>
> Sharing a few passages I marked that seemed relevant.
>
> p. 208
>
> "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic
> confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the
> listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war,
> after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters."
>
> 227
>
> "There was a fire-storm out there. Dresden was one big flame. The one flame
> ate everything organic, everything that would burn."
>
> 213
>
> "Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had
> twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit
> was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the
> roots and made very good fertilizer."
>
> 213-214
>
> (about a different story of Trout's)
>
> "But what made the story remarkable, since it was written in 1932, was that
> it predicted the widespread use of burning jellied gasoline on human beings.
>
> "It was dropped on them from airplanes. Robots did the dropping. They had no
> conscience, and no circuits which would allow them to imagine what was
> happening to the people on the ground."
>
> 215
>
> "Trout told him that he had never seen a book of his advertised, reviewed,
> or on sale. 'All these years,' he said, 'I've been opening the window and
> making love to the world.'"
>
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