"Unhappy Camper" https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/t1640 Runboard| "Unhappy Camper" en-us Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:36:08 +0000 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:36:08 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 Re: "Unhappy Camper"https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/p10960,from=rss#post10960https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/p10960,from=rss#post10960I'm sure I read "Mother Night" but don't recall much. Seems like to revisit it, Chrisnondisclosed_email@example.com (Christine98)Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:16:22 +0000 Re: "Unhappy Camper"https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/p10957,from=rss#post10957https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/p10957,from=rss#post10957Thank you, Chris. First Vonnegut critic I ever read who gets the brilliance of his "Mother Night." Terenondisclosed_email@example.com (Terreson)Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:06:18 +0000 "Unhappy Camper"https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/p10945,from=rss#post10945https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/p10945,from=rss#post10945Indispensable to Vonnegut’s humane comedy is this informal sense of reader rapport. The first sentence of Slaughterhouse-Five uses the phrase “more or less,” the second, “pretty much.” Before the paragraph is out, we’ll see “And so on.” Precision matters less to Vonnegut than commiseration, the feeling that we’re all in this together and nobody finishes on top, and therefore that sweating every last adverb may not really be for him. This isn’t laziness. No lazy man spends the two decades on a novel that Vonnegut lavished on Slaughterhouse-Five. It’s the modesty of a man underpraised for his early books and relatively overpraised for the late ones, who knew he was playing with house money from the day he got out of Dresden alive. http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2012-01/UnhappyCamper.htmlnondisclosed_email@example.com (Christine98)Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:34:27 +0000