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“We have now reached thirty three thousand feet. It is now safe to move about the cabin” is what I heard shortly after I began reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Timequake. I had purchased the book several days before my flight back home to Savannah, Georgia. My friend, and confidant in book recommendations, Brian Crabtree verbally sold me on the book in a few short sentences. And in a few short minutes we were walking to the book store so I could buy a used version for a reasonable price of $7.50.
See that cover? That’s the same one that I have in my home here. I can even see it in my peripherals.
Anyway, the book was incredible. I was put in a dream like ponderous stupor that only comes from the end of a satisfying read. Thank you Brian. It was a nice break from Dostoevsky’s C&P that I am reading as well, of which I’m am on page 386 of 564. So here we go, back to Raskolnikov’s dizzying perception.
Post Script: Kurt Vonnegut never liked the semicolon. Which makes me wonder what he thought of the modern day’s internet chatting invention of the “winking smile”. At best he would have been amused that it was at the very least made semi-useful.
