Yeah, I've already finished A Man Without a Country. Sorry about that. >_>
I had time to read this past week, but no time to really stop and analyze. I just wrote down nice quotes on an index card. So now that I'm analyzing some of Vonnegut's nonfiction, I really like the way he thinks.
One thing I've been noticing in his pieces is that he has a way of expressing ideas in totally different ways. My personal favorite example, as you can see in my 2nd blog post, is that he has an entire essay explaining how fossil fuels are like a drug. We, as humans, are horribly addicted to them, and it's far too late to help, but soon we'll be forced to go cold turkey.
In another essay, he describes himself as a Luddite (someone who hates new technology). While I personally love technology and computers, he creates such a lovely description of him delivering a piece of writing that I want to agree with him. THE POWER OF PATHOS OWNS US ALL. While he could have just typed it and emailed it, Vonnegut describes, rather memoir-like, how he typed it, printed it out, marked it up with pencil, went to the convenience store to buy an envelope, talked to the man there, and so on and so forth. It really shows the journey of everyday life when you go out and live it, and, being a socialist and a humanist, I think that's definitely something Vonnegut believed strongly in.
I think it's great too, but I haven't had much time in recent years to go out and live my life because of school work, so for now, I'll just have to take Vonnegut's word for it.
Oh the irony.
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