March 17, 2003

Will War Start Today?

"You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books?"

"No. What do you say, Harrison Starr?"

"I say, 'Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?' "

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that too.

---Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

Posted by waking slow at March 17, 2003 10:33 AM
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