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Kurt Vonnegut was a last-century artifact, combining dogmatic left-wing politics with whimsy, sentiment, and a few science-fiction tricks in a way that led people, beginning with himself, to think of him as a Sage.(Brief biography)(Brief article)

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Kurt Vonnegut was a last-century artifact, combining dogmatic left-wing politics with whimsy, sentiment, and a few science-fiction tricks in a way that led people, beginning with himself, to think of him as a Sage. If he outlasts Charles Reich and Jefferson Airplane, it will be thanks to Slaughterhouse-Five, his novel of the firebombing of Dresden, which he lived through as an ...

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