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" I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. "
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th anniversary edition - Page 24
by Kurt Vonnegut - 2009 - 240 pages
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Satire und Roman: Studien zur Theorie des Genrekonflikts und zur satirischen ...

Helmbrecht Breinig - American fiction - 1984 - 436 pages
...Kontrollmöglichkeiten, dem die Menschen nun eben unterliegen) der Befehl die Ausführung garantieren: I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances...and to express contempt for people who think we need machinerylikethat. (17) Aber das gehört zur Strategie des Textes, zwar zu satirischen Konsistenzbildungen,...
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Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 364 pages
...careful what we pretend to be." Vonnegut's message in Slaughterhouse-Five, Or the Children's Crusade is: "I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances...enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. " Is he a pacifist? "I've got four boys of military age and none of them are going," he told me. "It's...
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Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory

Jane Adamson, Richard Freadman, David Parker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 308 pages
...massacre, don't write it with parts for Frank-Sinatra-types or John-Waynetypes.' The author has told his sons 'that they are not under any circumstances to...enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee' (p. 19), but the book is not a corresponding universal prescription 16 My quotations come from the...
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The Airplane in American Culture

Dominick Pisano - History - 2003 - 420 pages
...undoubtedly doing "a great job" (61). He thus ignores the one clear lesson Vonnegut had drawn from Dresden: "I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres. ... I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt...
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The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education

Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, Richard D. Smith, Paul Standish - Philosophy - 2002 - 438 pages
...suffering," of torture, massacres. (I remember the first chapter of Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five: "I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres.") Again, I think of how being a secular Jew comes into my (critical) response to Nel Noddings, how it...
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Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade; or, How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind ...

Todd F. Davis - Literary Criticism - 2012 - 178 pages
...to his son in The Autobiography, Vonnegut instructs his own sons against the practices of massacres: I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances...for people who think we need machinery like that. (19) Such words are not the words of a fatalist. After writing thousands and thousands of pages over...
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Constructing Slaughterhouse-Five

Marc Regler - 2007 - 60 pages
...book, even when wars "keep coming like glaciers"137. The narrator's reaction to war is to teach his sons "that they are not under any circumstances to...enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee" and he "also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt...
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War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination

Howard Bruce Franklin - Technology & Engineering - 2008 - 324 pages
...undoubtedly doing "a great job" (61). He thus ignores the one clear lesson the author had drawn from Dresden: "I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres. ... I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt...
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