Status Updates From Birlibirloque

Good for Melanie.

Very weird to read a Vonnegut from 1990... feels different in some ways.

As it happened, he himself was in the medical-waste disposal game in Indianapolis. That's a nice business to learn about in a Chinese restaurant, with everybody dangling who knows what from chopsticks.
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He said, "Nobody likes to find a foot or a finger or whatever in a garbage can or a dump, even though it is no more dangerous to public health than the remains of a rib roast.

...in effect, the whole World was for sale to anyone who had Yen or was willing to perform fellatio."

So an appropriate sign to put over the gate to Athena might have been, instead of "Work Makes Free," for example: "Too bad you were born. Nobody has any use for you," or maybe: "Come in and stay in, all you burdens on Society."