She arrives at his house with the newspaper in hand, unable to get Billy to talk sense. ... The two Americans are brought to a house full of other captives. Billy falls asleep and wakes up in 1967 in the middle of administering an eye examination. ...
Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write ...
"Once I understood what was making America such a dangerous, unhappy nation of people who had nothing to do with real life, I resolved to shun storytelling." - Kurt Vonnegut The most influential force in society, the media has for years been a chronicle of the zeitgeist, typifying public opinion on everything imaginable. For the outspoken the media is an invaluable tool with which to evangelise unspoken truths. During the latter half of the 20th Century, three ambassadors of American counter-culture - Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Joseph Heller - used their art form as a weapo...
