![]() ![]() “…That was how Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz, could alternate over the loudspeakers of Auschwitz great music and calls for corpse-carriers…” (p. “The willful filing off of gear teeth, the willful doing without certain obvious pieces of information– “The missing teeth, of course, are simple, obvious truths, truths available and comprehensible to ten-year-olds, in most cases. Mother Night Paperback by Kurt Vonnegut (Author) 4.5 4,106 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 5.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.99 with Audible Membership Hardcover 358.95 1 Used from 358.95 7 Collectible from 495.00 Paperback 13.30 58 Used from 3.50 36 New from 7.98 1 Collectible from 29. “Hence the cuckoo clock in Hell–keeping perfect time for eight minutes and thirty-three seconds, jumping ahead fourteen minutes, keeping perfect time for six seconds, jumping ahead two seconds, keeping perfect time for two hours and one second, then jumping ahead a year. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. Mother Night Summary Take a gander at our guy, Howard W. “The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth that are immaculately maintained, that are exquisitely machined. 1 Quotes 1.1 Various interviews 1.2 Player Piano (1952) 1.3 The Sirens of Titan (1959) 1.4 Mother Night (1961) 1.5 Cats Cradle (1963) 1.6 God Bless You, Mr. Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. In the revelation, Wirtanan also divulges he has a dual identity: he is really Colonel Harold Sparrow. Regardless, MOTHER NIGHT certainly did raise issues about war and evil and probably induced many young minds to. 1961 was also the year that Joseph Heller, a World War II veteran like Kurt, published CATCH-22, which is a much stronger anti-war novel. Although he saves Howard’s life, he is forbidden from revealing Howard’s role as a spy until he falls into the hands of Israel as a war criminal. And Kurt Vonnegut published MOTHER NIGHT, a novel that explores the role of insanity in war. Another quote, in which Vonnegut provides a perfect metaphor for cognitive dissonance and willful ignorance: Major Frank Wirtanen Wirtanen is the man that recruits Howard into his life of espionage. ![]()
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