MY SUMMER READING AND SAD/ANGRY RELEVANCE OF IT NATIONALLY AND LOCALLY REPORT. Been saying for so long I need to read more so I picked a couple easy (in a way) reads this summer to complete and did it! I finished them! In fact I finished the second, Mother Night, on Labor Day after a morning dog walk along the river where we saw unnecessary, outrageous, hateful painted stupidity *right-out-of* this 1962 novel by Vonnegut. Both it and Slaughterhouse Five (published in 1969, and in which the protagonist of Mother Night briefly appears) are way, way too relevant right now; the main character of Mother Night is a man who became a propagandist for the Nazis as a secret agent of the United States, broadcasting too-effective hate speech he didn’t believe yet it did its damage. And then here on social media today @50littlebirds reports a beautiful old building in downtown Noblesville (a town which tried and imprisoned the Grand Dragon of the KKK in the 20s then made national headlines in the 90s when a trunk full of KKK member names was found in a barn) was tagged with the same damaging hate-spray. #everybodystop #lookwhatsgoingdown #hate #vonnegut #slaughterhousefive #mothernight #howardwcampbelljr cc: @vonnegut_library (at Noblesville, Indiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2AC142An1H/?igshid=1lj88ro8a4q3f
