Kurt Vonnegut on the Simplest, Hardest Secret of Happiness

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/31/kurt-vonnegut-joe-heller-having-enough/

Zu diesem #Brandanschlag in #Berlin um die #Vulkangruppe, bzw. der Analysen, ob das nun eine #FalseFlagOperation des #Kreml s sei usw. fällt mir, umso länger ich darüber nachdenke (sich mein Hirn verknotet), dies Zitat von #JosephHeller ein: "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you." welches ihr bestimmt in der Version von #KurtCobain / #Nirvana kennt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yNPgx0swCM

In jedem Fall ist das alles urst scheiße: egal was da nun hintersteckt.
#TerritorialPissing

“Didn't I once observe that there is nothing new under the sun?” — Joseph Heller, God Knows
#BOTD #JosephHeller #QOTD #New #Quotation #Quote

https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/quote-of-the-day-5367/

@ionica
Zo te horen was je een perfecte kandidaat geweest in de grote #catch22 quiz. Maar helaas, @Thijs_Goverde kaapte de prijs voor je neus weg

https://mastodon.social/@matv1/114111867884268709

#josephheller

📢
“You’re right, you’re right, you’re right.
The hot dog. The Brooklyn Dodgers. Mom’s apple pie.
That’s what everyone’s fighting for.

But who’s fighting for the decent folk?
Who’s fighting for more votes for the decent folk?

There’s no patriotism — that’s what it is.
And no matriotism either.”
— Catch-22

#Catch22 #JosephHeller #AntiWar #Satire #Books

Literarischer #1Mai

„Ein Land ist ein Stück Erde, auf allen Seiten von Grenzen umgeben, die typischerweise künstlich sind.“

#JosephHeller Geburt 1923

America is not gonna be destroyed
Never

Rome was destroyed
Greece was destroyed, Persia was destroyed
Spain was destroyed
All great countries are destroyed
Why not yours?
How much longer do you think your country will last?
Forever?
#suvivorsGuilt #riseAgainst #josephHeller #quote

" ... the chaplain was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was restrained by the memory of his wife, whom he loved and missed so pathetically with such sensual and exalted ardor, and by the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon, pro-American God, which had begun to waver.
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to the riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven? Where the devil was heaven? Was it up? Down? There was no up or down in a finite but expanding universe in which even the vast, burning, dazzling, majestic sun was in a state of progressive decay that would eventually destroy the earth too. There were no miracles; prayers went unanswered, and misfortune tramped with equal brutality on the virtuous and the corrupt; and the chaplain, who had conscience and character, would have yielded to reason and relinquished his belief in the God of his fathers—would truly have resigned both his calling and his commission and taken his chances as a private in the infantry or field artillery, ..."

-- #JosephHeller, Catch-22

#quote #Catch22 #Englishspeaking #AngloSaxon #proAmerican #God