Blue Frogs
I know that I've been high on links, and low on content lately.... This post is no different.
Egalitarianism has run amok in America.
No child left behinds means that Harrison Bergeron is amongst us.
I know that I've been high on links, and low on content lately.... This post is no different.
Egalitarianism has run amok in America.
No child left behinds means that Harrison Bergeron is amongst us.
posted by trawlerman at 10:40 AM
1 Comments:
Great story John. I guess we're all Spellbound Children Left Behind, unless you happened to win your Spelling Bee as my sister Becky did (also winning a flashy new typerwriter in the process). I wonder if she still uses it?
Anonymous | 01.28.05 - 2:50 pm | #
where do you find this stuff!? I liked the article about Harrison.
I wonder if Mrs.Newman's ever read it. The pathetic part of our egalitarian generation is that we don't read period. Of if we do it's something that's cool or feministic. Oh no, did I just write the ever present ever hiding all inclusive non pc word?
Your lack of blog content is far out weighed by your mind searching links. With your permission I'd like to use the Bergeron link, lest I be charged with thievery. There are proper ways of doing these things, ya know.
Matt | 01.28.05 - 4:31 pm | #
I'm stealing the Bergeron link too, John. It's been several years since I read it, still just as cutting a parable as ever.
Spike | 01.29.05 - 4:40 pm | #
Gravatar The Bergeron story was written by one of my all-time favorite heathens, Kurt Vonnegut. If you want to understand the man that John Owen has become, you can find no better starting place than the fiction of Mr. Vonnegut. I first read Breakfast of Champions when I was thirteen and couldn't stop reading all things Vonnegut after that. Vonnegut's fiction was hugely influential in my development and, while I've ultimately rejected the humanistic worldview that he espouses, I'm sure that much of Vonnegut remains in me, probably never to be entirely shaken away.
I saw him speak in Syracuse once, going on a road trip with a few fellow Houghton classmates to do so. He said that much of his life has been lived in obedience to the 5th commandment, honoring his atheist, humanist parents. That's the same lecture where I got the title for the post, where he described mailboxes as big blue bullfrogs, and gave the details of his undying crush on the local postal lady.
Anyhow, you can fin
trawlerman | Homepage | 01.29.05 - 5:11 pm | #
Gravatar Anyhow, you can find the story Harrison Bergeron in the short story collection Welcome to the Monkeyhouse. Which, of course, you can find at your local public library!
Yes, you have my permission to use the link.
No, you will never know how I "find this stuff"... Librarians never reveal their secrets.
"His fiction struggles to cope with a world of tragi-comic disparities, a universe that defies causality, whose absurdity lends the fantastic equal plausibility with the mundane."
-from bio at www.vonnegut.com
trawlerman | Homepage | 01.29.05 - 5:12 pm | #
Gravatar Spike,
Steal away!
trawlerman | Homepage | 01.29.05 - 5:16 pm | #
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