Where Do You Want to Go Today?

Author Kurt Vonnegut will talk about his work, but don’t ask him to read it aloud. “I’ve never done a reading. It’s the lowest art form imaginable,” he sniffs. However, “I’ll talk about stuff that bothers me, like the way people are being cheated out of the experience of becoming’. It’s the computer which becomes now. People think, Oh, boy, wait until I get this new program.’ Bill Gates will give you a program to write a perfect Shakespearean sonnet. For God’s sake, that’s not becoming.” (AP) ...Right. For that you need a high-speed connection to the ’net.