“there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?”

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut - “there i was in late middle age, cut...” 1

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