Subject: Re: list
From: Ed Fenning (ed361@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2000 - 23:00:42 EST
--- AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/12/00 10:36:16 PM Eastern
> Standard Time,
> I gotta admit, I like Vonnegut. I've only
> read...maybe two of his novels.
> But I like him :)
>
> Jim
I read Cat's Cradle back in '69 in the middle of a
Christmas season blizzard at my cousin's,
Slaughterhouse Five which is very, very, good, and
Breakfast of Champions, which I don't remember and
sold for credit at a used bookstore.
The movie Slaughterhouse Five contains a scene
where the prisoners are either sorting old clothes or
being given them to wear in Hamburg, under the eyes of
the S.S. One women's fur coat comes along the
conveyer and it is given to befuddled and bewildered
Billy Pilgrim. It is too small and looks ridiculous
on him. It is a woman's evening vest length
coat/jacket.
I suddenly was taken aback wondering about it's
source, whether these were clothes being sent back to
Germany from extermination camp victims. Then I also
wondered, whether this reference (for the audience to
make the same jump) was intended by the film's
director.
- Ed
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