Maybe part of my problem these days is that I may have read waaayyy too much Vonnegut in the past few weeks. But once you get going with him, it's hard to stop.

After Deadeye Dick, Jailbird, Player Piano and Mother Night, I'm currently finishing Hocus Pocus. A quick excerpt:

" Life was like an ocean liner to a lot of people who weren't in prison, too, of course. And their TV sets were portholes through which they could look while doing nothing, to see all the World was doing with no help from them.

Look at it go ! "

OK one more:

" Crucifixion as a mode of execution for the very worst criminals was outlawed by the first Christian Roman Emperor, who was Constantine the Great.

Burning and boiling were still OK. "