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Finished rereading Vonnegut's Galapagos. It's a more engrossing read than much of his other stuff, a lot of drive to get to the end (heightened by a trick of putting a "*" by people's name if their death is eminent. And there it is a rather apocalyptic scene on several fronts)

Also he mentions a simultaneous device called the Gokubi and its successor the Mandarax, which ends up sounding a lot like a smartphone (well maybe without the connectivity) wired in with Google Translate, WikiQuote, and WebM, along with a calendar etc. Also solar powered which would be a nice touch.

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Like most Pathological Personalities, *Andrew MacIntosh never cared much whether what he said was true or not--and so he was tremendously persuasive.

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Of course I love you,
So let's have a kid
Who will say exactly
What its parents did;
"Of course I love you,
So let's have a kid
Who will say exactly
What its parents did; 'Of course I love you,
So let's have a kid
Who will say exactly
What its parents did--'"
Et cetera.

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For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold.

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This episode made me sorry to be alive, made me envy stones.

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Since rising at dawn, Cruz himself had been thinking seriously about going home. He had a pregnant wife and eleven children in a nice house out by the airport, and they were scared. They certainly needed him, and yet, until now, abandoning a ship to which he was duty bound, no matter for what reason, had seemed to him a form of suicide, an obliteration of all that was admirable in his character and reputation.

I can weirdly identify with that feeling about duty.

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Quoth Mandarax:
"Something there is that doesn't love a wall."
--ROBERT FROST (1874–1963)
To which I add:
"Yes, but something there is which adores a mucous membrane."
--LEON TROTSKY TROUT
(1946–1,001,986)