"A cynic may be pardoned for thinking that this is a dog's life."

“I had the Bell Telephone Company find him for me. They are
Wonderful that way. I have this, disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years.” (Slaughterhouse-Five pg 2) This quotation by Kurt Vonnecut is a combination of humor, cynicism and a contemporary spirit. It is charged with emotion and sincerity, it is a Bob Dylan type of thought. A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” Bob Dylan It basically describes Kurt Vonnecut and his story (yet to be told), it is an attractive sentence to drive our attention towards the novel. Why modern? Why so straight forward? The answer I wanted to find of to these questions was not delayed. Narration, style and tone should be intercalated, attracting the reader relies on: the organic thoughts. This excerpt was not “forced” to exist in the novel. It relates the banality of his actions with the setting of this story. This association is clearly shown in the beginning of the novel, “All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his. Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. And so on. I've changed all the names.” (Slaughterhouse-five) Effectively Vonnecut provides some previous context to set the inauguration of the book. The themes to be said are “normal”and are distorted at some degree. Alcohol, wives, time, and a distant friend are subjects of modern literature and cinematography. The “Rippler effect” contains these same ingredients in a different story, however still has an impacting effect. I must finish my blog entry with a cynic tone or at least an attempt of what it sounds like. I would like to apologize to you my dear audience if I like cynics, or novels written with some effortless memories of cotidianity. Do not get me wrong, recalling Dresden is not effortless (as Vonnecut states). But memories of calling a friend while being drunk are not too complex either.