Invoking Kilgore Trout

Kurt Vonnegut invented the writer/character Kilgore Trout as a kind of Doppelgänger of himself. He appears in several of Vonnegut’s novels. There’s one Trout story—I think it’s in Breakfast of Champions—that’s about a man who thinks he’s the only non-robot in the world. As a result, he feels very isolated. In the common parlance ofContinue reading “Invoking Kilgore Trout”

We Are Family?

I’m often amazed at how people who say they are very pro-family and supportive of their family members actually don’t treat them very well. Sometimes I’m watching a movie or TV show, and the mother says something to the son or daughter, and my response is, “What mother would ever say that to their child?”Continue reading “We Are Family?”