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”
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Selfish Self-Centeredness
What personality trait in people raises a red flag with you? This may seem an odd things for me to complain about, since I have often been accused of it myself. Growing up as an only child with few friends, I spent a lot of time alone, so I did focus on myself a greatContinue reading “Selfish Self-Centeredness”
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