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Heavy stuff.

Vonnegut exceeds in humour and creativity, simply brilliant up to now!

Precise and vivid, but over-stretched.

'Verona 65. Dresden 88. London 100. Rome. Paris. Lyon. Late-night shortwave: province of ramblers and dreamers, madmen and ranters.'

Ran out of books a while a go, laying hands on anything readable in the local Sumatran libraries ;)

"The danger to Constantinople was over by early 1097; and the great Crusading army of a hundred thousand warriors had set out to fight against the Turks in Asia Minor."

"Come upstairs, Basil. I keep a diary of my life from day to day, and it never leaves the room in which it is written." - Dorian Grey

"I'm too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Erskine. I should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal. But there is no literary public in England for anything except newspapers, primers, and encyclopedias." - Lord Henry

"The Weingartners were apparently stupid people with a constantly molting Saumensch of a cat." --- this swearing is hilarious!

Was Trojanov in 'Der Weltensammer' vergass, war, trotz farbenfrohen Beschreibungen konkret zu bleiben. Kermani erlöst mich nun.

"Reverend Moorehead was a tall sad man with a stoop and a tendency to give his sermons startling titles: 'Would you speak with Jesus if you met him on the street?' - Reverend Moorehead doubted that you could, even if you wanted to, because Jesus probably spoke Aramaic." :D

"The pages rot, the glue liquefies, the bindings disintegrate, the insects devour. Literature and the tropics are really incompatible"

"Wherever, on the contrary, children are brought up without being subjected to physical violence, god is immanent. A people's theology reflects the state of its children's bottoms. Look at the Hebrews - enthusiastic child-beaters." - (Huxley rambling on with quite some temper here)

"Long days. Open country with the ash blowing over the road. The boy sat by the fire at night with the pieces of the map across his knees."

"The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. If only my heart were stone."

"Ein kurzer Hustenanfall zwang Baier, die Havana aus dem Mund zu nehmen und in den Aschenbecher zu legen. Er unterdrückte ihn mit der Routine eines Mannes, der fast sein ganzes Leben lang geraucht und fast sein halbes Leben lang gehustet hatte. Dann nahm er einen grossen Schluck Port. Nicht sein Lieblingsgetränk, nur sein Lieblingskompromiss zwischen etwas Vernüftigem und etwas Stärkerem."

"A reef such as is here spoke of is scarcely known in Europe, it is a wall of coral rock rising almost perpendicular out of the unfathomable ocean" - Cpt James Cook (1770)

"Ohne Informationen, Gelegenheit zur Beratung und die Macht, Entscheidungen wirkungsvoll zu machen, haben die in einer Demokratie geäusserten, zivilen Meinungen kaum mehr Gewicht als Applaus bei einer Sportveranstaltung" - Erich Fromm Ich frage mich auf nun bald jeder zweiten Seite, wieso mir dieses Werk von keinem empfohlen wurde.

"Ein blaues Glas erscheint blau, weil es alle andern Farben absorbiert und sie so nicht passieren lässt. Das heisst, wir nennen ein Glas blau, weil es das Blau gerade nicht in sich behält. Es ist nicht nach dem benannt, was es besitzt, sondern nach dem, was es hergibt" - Magnificient!

"In Republika Srpska, Biljana Plavšić was formally second only to the president, Radovan Karadzić. The fact that a woman could be responsible for some of the most appalling atrocities commited in Bosnia during the war must be hard to swallow for anyone who believes - even vaguely - that if women ruled, the world would be a better place. When this woman ruled Bosnia, it was pure hell."

"If confinement leads to nomadism, the latter will in turn will guide the protagonists towards self-reconciliation" - Paul Bruckner (Introduction)

"It's a lie. It's Friday. You're eating the body of our Lord. It's God-meat. It's dead Austrian. That's what you're eating" - Rinaldi

"This was precisely why she loved plays, or hers at least; everyone would adore her" - Mister McEwan has got me into something here..

"In the name of god, do your duty! In the name of god, believe him." - Atticus Can't stop reading this.

"People in their right minds never take pride in their talents."

The Salamander draws up in front of Montag's house, Captain Beatty gleaming with satisfaction. Can Faber save the day? The story's 'burning bright', last chapter!