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Originally Posted by Marie Monday
I think vonnegut pretty much immediately goes to dick size lol. He also mentions comments on the dick size of the main character in slaughterhouse five
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Is that right, Marie? Good for Vonnegut! Slaughterhouse 5 is another book that I have largely forgotten - unless that is the one in which numerous paragraphs are concluded with the irritating sentence, "So it goes." Because of that one stylistic trick, I've avoided reading him ever since.
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Originally Posted by jadis
Thanks! All I knew is that in an autobiographical essay from 1979, Angela Carter writes about being raised by a larger-than-life yarn-spinning Yorkshire matriarch of a grandmother, and makes a humorous reference to the "family talent for magical realism" - so I gathered the term must have been well entrenched by the late 1970s, especially after Carter's own The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) and The Passion of New Eve (1977). Thanks very much for this more precise information.
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You're welcome, jadis! I'm not familiar with Angela Carter, and certainly had no idea that she was part of some early Yorkshire tradition of magic realism.
Thanks for the info.
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"Do you see anything?" Cali screamed at me as everything turned a faint shade of green from the flare.
"****, man, I don't know!" I yelled back staring over my rifle.
"Should we start shooting?" Cali asked.
"If you do, I will."
"Let's wait for someone else to start first."
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That quote is a great indication of what I imagine is the real-life muddle of war, so often left out of the movies and history books.