#kurt vonnegut slapstick

[macrolit]

Slapstick Kurt Vonnegut This is 1 of 12 vintage paperback classics that comprise our current giveaw@y.

[philosophybitmaps]

[blurryvizionz]

Any book recommendations?

[malaisequotes]

“I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please—a little less love, and a little more common decency.’”

Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut

[laziestgirlintown]

Did you know that this is a bit like Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slapstick, or, Lonesome No More!?

- In terms of this poll, if you're a bumblebee, you're my family

In the novel, all people appointed (for instance) bumblebee will always have a bumblebee family.

Like all utopias, turns out it isn't quite utopian

(per an old Slapstick family generator, back when internet internetted and search engines found, I'm: Muskellunge-11. Just in case there are any relatives out there)

I need to run a survey really quick. This isn't serious, but I need people to cooperate and not cheat for the sake of it because it'll skew the results.

Imagine you wake up tomorrow and you realize you (and everyone else in the world) can turn into an animal (And back into a human) at will.

Please go to this link to see what animal it will be for you:

(this is random, and yes, you only get one, no redos)

With this in mind, please reply to the following questions as truthfully as possible based on your current situation. (Not an ideal fantasy one.)

[eggleon]

i like Vonnegut's books but a lot of the covers are bad to me. i draw my own

[pothosgrowing]

Kurt Vonnegut was so real for this

like yeah it’s so hard to not say “love you too” when someone says “I love you” and as someone who’s aromantic I always feel weird/bad saying it because for me it’s a lie :( but I always feel obligated to because it’s what is expected of me

[sordidamok]

I read a lot of Vonnegut as a teen. I wouldn't say Vonnegut gave me new beliefs, but he certainly confirmed things I believed and gave me new insights. He helped me solidify my feminism, anti-war, and socialist beliefs.

Some of what I read in Vonnegut was "disturbing". It was supposed to be.

From the article:

Should we worry, as massive book-banning efforts imply, that young people will be harmed by certain kinds of books? For over a decade and through hundreds of interviews, my colleague, literacy professor Peter Johnston, and I have studied how adolescents experience reading when they have unfettered access to young adult literature. Our findings suggest that many are helped rather than harmed by such reading. For one study, we spent a year in a public middle school in a small, mid-Atlantic town, observing and talking to eighth grade students whose teachers, rather than assigning the “classics” or traditional academic texts, let students choose what to read and gave them time to read daily in class. To support student engagement, they made available hundreds of contemporary books that are relevant to the students’ lives. The books included many of the titles currently being challenged, according to PEN America, which is a nonprofit that advocates against censorship, among other things. The titles include Ellen Hopkins’ “Identical,” Jay Asher’s “Thirteen Reasons Why,” Patricia McCormick’s “Sold,” and others that were banned because of themes of sex and violence. We were interested in what the students perceived to be the consequences of reading young adult literature. They tended to read books they described as “disturbing.” At the end of the school year, we interviewed 71 of the students about changes in their reading and relationships with peers and family. We also asked open-ended questions about how, if at all, they had changed as people since the beginning of the year. Beyond reading substantially more than they had previously, they reported positive changes in their social, emotional and intellectual lives that they attributed to reading, the kinds of books they read and the conversations those books provoked. Here are six ways students told us they had been changed by reading and talking about edgy young adult books.

[thegayjoker]

this is literally a plot point in slapstick by kurt vonnegut

[cinematic-literature]

Old Boyfriends (1979) by Joan Tewkesbury

Book title

Midnight Express (1977) by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer

A Book of Common Prayer (1977) by Joan Didion

Going Crazy: An Inquiry into Madness in Our Time (1976) by Otto Friedrich

Living Well is the Best Revenge (1971) by Calvin Tomkins

Heavily Tattooed Men and Women (1976) by Spider Webb

Maya Plisetskaya (1976)

Secret Passages and Hiding Places (1974) by Jeremy Errand

Dispatches (1977) by Michael Herr

Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 (1962) by W. H. Auden

Slapstick (1976) by Kurt Vonnegut

Colette: A Taste for Life (1977) by Yvonne Mitchell

The Laszlo Letters (1977) by Don Novello

Cheap Chic (1975) by Carol Troy and Caterine Milinaire

[disregardenedgnostic]

i've been torrenting a shitton of anime for like the past month straight barring the occasional power outage or tripped breaker. My CPU's uptime hjust passed thirteen days.

i have no idea what a handle is. my computer is punisheing me for my unbelievable hubris by passive-aggressivelty threatening to kill itself

i am either becoming a god or being majorly stink-eyed by the good lord. i just spilled malt ligupr on my sweatpants i'm definitely gonna smeell like booze in thye morning (i say it's 5am). now i know that it's possible someone that there's slomeone reading this who grew up with enough money they yhink i mean single-malt whiskey because tjat's happened befgore and no i don't mean single-malt whiskey i really really don't this shit's way cheaper and way tastier and i have open a 24oz can of the stuff that's about two-thirds of a liter for people from normal places yes that's a lot for one drink even at okay wait i can't actually find a %ABV on here that's probablty fine disregard that mixing alcohol and antidepressants is universally a bad idea of course i'm taking the duloxetine more for neuropathy tha ndepression heehehehhehehee not that that matters but shit the alcoholism'ws winning tonight! 15yo me was right giving in to the drink rules i should mix weed in that's a great idea and it's a spliff too i'm supposed to never smoke tobacoo ever since my doctor made me quit because it makes my migraines worse an also akl the other reasons WE'RE DOING ALL THE BAD IDEAS TONIGHT BABY i'm gonna make sure i don't try to mix uppers and downers HEY ME A CC OUPLE HOURS FROM NOW DO NOT FUCKIONG TAKE THOSE CAFFEINE PILLS THAT'S AN EVEN WORSE IDEA YOU WILL PROBABLY GO TO THE HISPITAL AND IT;LL BE REALLY REALLY EMBARASSING

fuck it's hot in here. runniong the computer for 13 days coinciding with a heat wave definitely has something to do with that yaaaaaaaaaaaay the weed's kikimg in :D oop coughing glah

y'know this is a spiral. this is definitely a spiral. i dropped outta my summer classes, i'm halfwzay to dropping out of college. again. shut up, kurt vonnegut dropped out twice! and tried to kill himself at least twice! and shit he wrote Slapstick! like i love that book but how the fuck do you recover from thAT? i dunno but hey he did it

you know what this started when that bookcase attacked me. shit i ain't kurt vonnegut i can't come back from that that's a fucking anime gag i've seen that happen in at least two anime //three if you count both fullmetal alchemists!// ↑those aren't effective replacements for parentheses! <==art thou fucking kidding me with this goddamn alt code shit we need to go back to 1998 that was the golden age of web design ╚oh ypu wanna go back to 1998 huh kill urself lololol | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | wow our gets and insults and other such bantz were at least creative back then geez also spelling §BECK IN MYYYYY DAY WE USED ENCYCLOPAEDIAE AND WE LIKED IT. AND THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY! ABSURDLY THOROUGH MICRO-PRINT EDITION WITH INCLUDED MAGNIFYING GLASS. I KNOW IT'S FROM THE 5Os and 6O dollars BUT IT'S WORTH IT! YOU KNOW IT IS! IT'S THE DEFINITIVE DESCRIPTIVE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE! IT'S A WORK OF AAAAAAART!!!!!

>encyclopaediae >british spelling kekw

Is that even how greentext works, 4chan-user me? Also fuuuuuck offffffffff

>FORMATTING BITCH >also HAH HAH HAHAHAH >YOU'LL NEVER BE RID OF ME OVER-[name.] >hatehatehateseethecopeseethe

§YOU WANT US TO COOK FOOD BY BOILING IT? SEETHE AN EGG? AND C O P I N G IS A GOOD THING! WITLESS HACK!

Buddy. Really-Old me. That's not what she means by cope. Everyone knows you know that. And that definition of 'seethe' was archaic even in that dictionary you wanted. Probably.

§AND NOW WE'LL NEVER KNOW, WILL WE?

...We go to that bookstore plenty. It's literally the only game in town unless you count the antique store across the street that sells old books for way too much. And, really, I'm not paying 20 bucks for a copy of Kafka's The Trial when I could get the full set of Shakespeare's Comedies and Tragedies across the street for 40. Again. whydididothatwhydoesanyonetrustmewithmoneyaaaaejhakfhdfkla;

☹u ok ss☹

really? unicode, at a time like this? @--Λ-@

I'm fine I'm normal I'm fine I'm normal I'm not talking to myself this is just comedically being very silly and mean to myself on the internet, a totally sane thing to do yup. Anyway point is that dictionary's totally still gonna be there whenever we're in a better position to get it. That, and this Convention Of The Inner Symposium is getting wildly out of hand and also that's not an obscenely pretentious name shut up

hahahhaahahhahah wow that was really funny wasn't it folks. ha. ha.i'm drunker now! and it's 7:40 am now! and my extremities are really numb tingly! and i was super absurdly fucking hot but now i'm comfortably cool so that's nice. This is the best part of drinking! that's definitely a fine healthy and not weird thing to think about alcohol!

[wulfhalls]

any good book recs, queen?

imma just throw out everything I've read this year so far it hasn't been that much but there were some all time favs in there. wait no not everything fuck the name of the rose fuck that book so hard don't read it EVER i was engaged in a prolonged fight to the death with it and the victory was not worth the price i paid. anyways. WOLF HALL TRILOGY!!!!!!!!! LIFE CHANGING READING EXPERIENCE!!!!!!! BEST BOOK(S) IVE EVER READ NO JOKE NO EXAGGERATION NO HYPERBOLE!!!!! william faulkner - absalom absalom, as I lay dying, light in august, alice hoffman - the dovekeepers, john steinbeck- east of eden, jane austen - persuasion, john williams - butcher's crossing, brooke bolander - the only harmless great thing, ernest hemingway - the old man and the sea, virginia woolf - to the lighthouse, mrs dalloway, kazuo ishiguro - when we were orphans, a pale view of hills, gabriel garcia marquez- a chronicle of a death foretold, kurt vonnegut - slapstick or lonesome no more. also DUNE because everyone should read DUNE and I never let an opportunity pass me by to recommend DUNE

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tagged by: @wldestluv-rs <333

last song: when ya get drafted by dead kennedys [♫] fave color: dark emerald green currently watching: barry <3 last movie: a simple plan! shout out caroline kwan movie nights currently reading: slapstick by kurt vonnegut and rereading their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston for school sweet/spicy/savoury: ALL! it depends on my mood last thing i googled: billy bob thornton! i wanted to see if he was in any other movies or shows recently current obsession: house flipper, bg3, and bear and breakfast <3 any game that isnt the sims unfortunately currently working on: nothing sims related :( i have like 7 tests and 2 essays due in the next 3 weeks

tagging (absolutely no pressure <3): @wildmelon @avornalino @birdietrait @afrolatinotrait and anyone else who sees this :)

[ombre-ame]

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency'.

Kurt Vonnegut , Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

@ombre-ame

Feb 25/24

[orca-soup]

There is no peace, I’m sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick