[Fists] Ever tried CWCom?
K0HB
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Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:25:28 -00
> [Original Message]
> From: Nick Yokanovich <[email protected]>
>
> You all should know Bokonon is a literary invention of Kurt Vonnegut,
> and anything Bokonon wrote should be taken in the context of "Cat's
Cradle".
One of my favorite Bokonon quotes is "Maturity is a bitter disappointment
for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy
anything." which seems a play on the philosopher Friedrich Neitzsche who
said "A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness
one had as a child, at play." If I were forced to chose a single
philosophy, it would be the tone which underlies all of Vonnegut's work and
can be summed up in four words "Be Nice, God Damnit!"
73, de Hans, K0HB
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