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NNadir

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1. The result was one of the most powerful pieces of antiwar...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Feb 13, 2025, 12:10 PM

Feb 13

...literature ever written, "Slaughterhouse Five."

It is also one of the most evocative descriptions of PTSD, by someone who clearly suffered it, Kurt Vonnegut.

I have always tried to adhere to the one word opening sentence of the place where the novel begins, oddly in the second chapter: "Listen."

I have always wondered how that sentence should be read aloud, screamed or whispered.

We do not "listen" enough to what war is.

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The result was one of the most powerful pieces of antiwar... NNadir Feb 13 #1