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Kurt Vonnegut wrote a book called “Jailbird”. It is about a man named Walter Starbuck. The book was copywrited in 1979. This was long before overpriced coffee drinks became a franchise. Mr. Starbuck gets out of prison, and has been somewhat of a failure at life.
In the foreword, Mr.Vonnegut says there will be a character named Roy Cohn, based on the real man with that name. The real Mr. Cohn was a dreadful man. First he was the counsel for Joe McCarthy. Then he was a spectacularly crooked attorney. It remains to be seen what sort of treatment this book will give him.
On page 111, there is a severe quote. It will be paraphrased here out of kindness to copyright laws, and the tenacity of survivors. No person is so pathetic that he cannot collect as many rich ironies as possible. There is no indication of whether an irony board was needed.
So Walter Starbuck is released from prison and goes to New York. He runs into a bag lady, who turns out to be an old girlfriend. The bag lady/x is also the owner of a huge corporation, who gives Starbuck a job where he makes lots of money. Plots like that are fun to read, like a science fiction story set in New York. And about as realistic.
Mr. Vonnegut has yet to say “and so it goes”. There are a hundred pages left, so there is plenty of time. Kilgore Trout has not been heard from. There is a picture of Mr. Vonnegut smoking on the back cover. It was taken by his wife, a lady named Jill Krementz. PG had the notion that Ms. Krementz had been in Athens GA in the early seventies, and that she may have been in the same room as PG. However, wikipedia says she was born in 1940, and was from New Jersey.
This feature needs one more paragraph to be a rainbow. This is the purple paragraph. It is not about prince, or Alice Walker, or grape juice. It could be about the Governor of Illinois. He was arrested for trying to sell a senate seat. BHO is not going to need it, because he is going to be president. Maybe Governor Alphabet could throw in an irony board, at no extra charge.