Hocus Pocus
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Here is the adventure of Eugene Debs Hartke. He's a Vietnam veteran, a jazz pianist, a college professor, and a prognosticator of the apocalypse (and other things Earth-shattering). But that's neither here no there. Because at Tarkington College—where he teaches—the excrement is about to hit the air-conditioning. And its all Eugene's fault.
Quote:
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
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"But don't worry. There is sort of a bright side to all of this. The science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout briefly appears - along with others in Mr. Vonnegut's repertory company, represented by a story called ''Protocols of the Elders of Tralfamador,'' in which he speculates that the whole point of human history is to breed strains of germs powerful enough to travel through space and spread DNA throughout the universe. Once we are through trashing and poisoning the planet, any germ hardy enough to survive here could presumably make it anywhere." -NYT Book Review