Scottie- That dialogue was an excerpt from a daytime TV drama and was overly mournful and sappy on purpose; Vonnegut's mission seems to be satire. robbie On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:28:57 +0100 Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie> writes: > > Well, honestly Wes, I DO beg to differ. > > I'd long forgotten whatever I may have read > of Vonnegut but when Robbie sent in that > extract I could only think it was a joke of some > kind. > > Jerome has his faults, God knows, but he'd be > physically incapable of writing that lugubrious, > cloth-eared ho-ho-ho. > > Tell me you ARE all having a merry jest between > yourselves. > > Scottie B. > ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.