I am a terrible reader.  Honestly, I am lazy and slow.  Probably takes me, depending on the book, an hour to read over twenty pages.  I have always been a slow reader.  I think it probably has something to do with the way I read.  I like to take in every word.  I don’t understand speed readers.  The only reason I made it through school is my uncanny memorization capacity.  Well, I am currently and still reading Vonnegut’s Deadeye Dick.

At one time, I attempted to read Breakfast of Champions but I couldn’t maintain interest in the book.  Which is weird because I generally enjoy fragmentation.  Anyways, I was reading the book again this morning and I came across a part that stopped me in my tracks and so I thought I would share.

The character is referring to a bomb that has gone off in a city and killed people but everything else was untouched.

And I do not see how I can get out of asking this question: Does it matter to anyone or anything that all those peepholes were closed so suddenly?  Since all the property is undamaged, has the world lost anything it loved?

Brilliant.