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My virtue is that I say what I think, my vice that what I think doesn't amount to much.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard


I want to share with you something I’ve learned. I’ll draw it on the blackboard behind me so you can follow more easily [draws a vertical line on the blackboard]. This is the G-I axis: good fortune-ill fortune. Death and terrible poverty, sickness down here—great prosperity, wonderful health up there. Your average state of affairs here in the middle [points to bottom, top, and middle of line respectively].

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