Sirens Of Titen
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"It took us that long to realize that a purpose of
human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love
whoever is around to be loved." (Vonnegut:220)
The Sirens of Titan is Kurt Vonnegut's second novel. He has
written it in 1959, seven years after his previous Player Piano.
It has been d ....
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.... sense of direction and
concreteness. Rather surprising, too, is the fact that
the novel with its science fiction orientation, with
its robots and near-robot humans, and with its several
central characters who are intentionally presented as
being rather cold-hearted, generates more human warmth
than Player Piano which is directly concerned with the
agonies of exploring and following conscience, emotion
and love. Three possible explanations for this
fenom ....
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Word count: 873
Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
