Hampden Sydney College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hampden Sydney, VA)

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an all-male school? That soggy lit- tle shard of flesh is about all the guy has in common with us gun- nut Republican fascist phallocrat lepers out here. He says the big worry of his generation was how big is enough? Lucky nobody out here worries about stuff like that any more. We're light years beyond all that. Harrumph. Snuffle. Everybody is on the edge of his seat. He's going to say it. He's going to say the word. You know which one. That one. The one they burn up all his books for. Going to do it. Two- hundred and umpty-ump years on the hit parade and nobody's ever said that word here. Lots of sighs of relief when about the lowest of his tide - something about breaking-wind washes over us and it's done. Whew! Waves a sheaf of rumpled paper at us. You want to print this? Hrummmph. Snuffle. You bet we do. He talks like that, too. He goes back to Kilgore Trout. Safe Vonnegut is special guest at a wine and cheese gathering given in his honor by the faculty of the college. tlf. all ,h 1. A ,FA ,f-5-1' . ., 2 'NA :ki M t .wh ug ., .ws ul: -M dll'-Xfi'-'ff-L 5. . ' HQ! 21:Fy,Q::::g.ftpggi..1AxlQ:v.. f l tfft11AL'5'21: r f 1 P r . i t1J'.,.:r. -T 554:13-iiiy.. mttgittg -S - QA.-. . . -n.-t...'..f.-s 7' '- N ' .3 ground. He's rambling on about man-woman hours now or something like that. Sure. Sure. Now he's thumping this preparers for war business. Hrummmph. Shuffle. War is bad. People who do war are bad. People who think war are bad. People who say war are bad. Applause. Applause. Applause. This man is a powerful presence. He reminds us ot other great men who have used short words and cut into the human heart with them. Carved them into its tissue. The human heart is a muscle, don't you know. lt takes sharp words to cut into it. And there is pain. And little gratitude. But sometimes that fat- and-fiber-swaddled organ needs work. l'm sorry. Don't know about you, but he signed my Deadeye Dick with an asterisk. And so it goes. - Dr. Alan Farrell Associate Professor of Modern Languages I 1 .1 -. 1 .J - 4- I, Ht

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