...You were not quite Heller, Or Arthur C. Clarke, Perhaps a less inane version of Salinger, But with the same infuriating slang-prose medium, I tried to read Slaughterhouse 5, Gave up out of sheer frustration.
The Brotherhood of the Horned Post-Newt genuinely believe themselves to be the last rational inhabitants of this planet, fending off the tidal encroachments of blind faith, deaf politics, mute literature and tasteless art.
The Newt is the journalistic embodiment of Spring-heeled Jack, and has been known to leap over the hedges, startling respectable women and burly policemen. Its methods are impractical, its purposes obscure.
Central to its identity is a lack of definition - no less, a publication of blurred edges. It is interested in anarchy, subversive action, samizdat, smashing through picket-lines and beating up communists. Equally, it is devoted to ruthless authoritarianism, oppressive fascism, intellectual tyranny and the world viewed from a bourgeois perspective.
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...You were not quite Heller,
Or Arthur C. Clarke,
Perhaps a less inane version of Salinger,
But with the same infuriating slang-prose medium,
I tried to read Slaughterhouse 5,
Gave up out of sheer frustration.
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