Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Thursday, April 12, 2007


We will concede for argument's sake that Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was "Voltaireian" (although just how Voltaireian a man is who comes up with character names like "Walter Gesundheit" may be open to question), but somehow we can't help thinking him a man who wrote for college professors and New York Times readers as if to a mirror, and who basked in their reflection. Maybe you had to be there in that golden age when everybody questioned everything, and got left with nothing -- even Vonnegut, who attempted suicide. No, Gore Vidal was right -- his generation of authors didn't have imagination.

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