It hurts and is a mystery.

[Keith Davis]

Mark, that’s perfect! and Jochen, thanks for the context. I just read this book last week. Those darned aliens are so undependable.

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> On Oct 30, 2017, at 5:35 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The Vonnegut quote in its context:
> 
> ‘If we must,’ said Wilder, and the grin went on and on. ‘I have to tell you, though, that you are not the first person to say the game was all over for the human race. I’m sure that even in Egypt before the first pyramid was constructed, there were men who attracted a following by saying “it’s all over now”.’
> 
> ‘What is different about now as compared with Egypt before the first pyramid was built –‘ Ed began
> 
> ‘And before the Chinese invented printing, and before Columbus discovered America,’ Jason Wilder interjected.
> 
> ‘Exactly,’ said Bergeron.
> 
> ‘The difference is that we have the misfortune of knowing what’s really going on,’ said Bergeron, ‘which is no fun at all. And this has given rise to a whole new class of preening, narcissistic quacks like yourself who say in the service of the rich and shameless polluters that the state of the atmosphere and the water and the topsoil on which all life depends is as debatable as how many angels can dance on the fuzz of a tennis ball.’
> 
> He was angry.
> 
> Bergeron’s epitaph, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the Grand Canyon for the flying-saucer people to find, was this:
> 
> WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP
> 
> 
> From his novel Hocus Pocus (1990)
> 
> 2017-10-30 9:53 GMT+01:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>> Keith,
>> 
>> Maybe it will survive --with music!
>> 
>> http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/10/26/listen_to_the_greatest_songs_about_aliens_wiping_us_out.html
>> 
>>> On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 12:41 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It was only ever "ours" by conceit.  It will survive us, if necessary.
>>> 
>>> David Morris
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 11:22 AM Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Kurt Vonnegut said it best, “We could have saved our planet, but we were just too cheap.”
>>>> 
>>>> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>> 
>>>>> On Oct 29, 2017, at 8:47 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/octopus-crawling-out-sea-wales-11425946
>> 
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