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To: nickcarraway

Harrison Bergeron is the classic in this group of worthy literature. It is written in a way that it actually speaks to kids, even now.

That’s the test.

Absolute classic, and its succinct, which you have to be in a society with near zero attention span.


4 posted on 02/10/2017 2:00:41 PM PST by RinaseaofDs (Truth, in a time of universal deceit, is courage)
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To: RinaseaofDs
Unfortunately, the Vonnegut of Harrison Bergeron died somewhere between Breakfast of Champions and Slapstick and even his pale ghost was never seen again, as Kurt himself made a very sharp left turn into oblivion.
8 posted on 02/10/2017 2:25:43 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come 'round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Can’t disagree but I’d wager that Harrison Bergeron may have never been written if not for Heinlein’s works that preceded it.


20 posted on 02/11/2017 2:44:11 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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