The America I grew up in was a country that made things. It made cars and steel and refrigerators and washing machines and television sets. Now we make money. We make money by moving money around.
— Kurt Vonnegut Modern

Slaughterhouse-Five

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A Man Without a Country

Date / Period

2005

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Strange & Unusual

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https://archive.org/details/manwithoutcountr00vonn

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