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The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.






The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. These unhappy agents found what had already been found in abundance on Earth - a nightmare of meaninglessness without end. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. What mankind hoped to learn in its outward push was who was actually in charge of all creation, and what all creation was all about. Mankind, ignorant of the truths that lie within every human being, looked outward - pushed ever outward.

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

They could not name even one of the fifty-three portals to the soul. Less than a century ago men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

No names have been changed to protect the innocent, since God Almighty protects the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine.Įveryone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.īut mankind wasn't always so lucky.

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Certain speeches and thoughts are necessarily constructions by the author. "Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules - and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress."įor Alex Vonnegut, Special Agent, with love -Īll persons, places, and events in this book are real.








The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.