Playbill
April, 2008
"This is my principal objection to life. I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes," wrote the late Kurt Vonnegut. In Wailing Shall Be in All Streets he condemns one such mistake, the Allied firebombing of Dresden that killed tens of thousands of civilians in one night. The previously unpublished essay (from his forthcoming Armageddon in Retrospect. from G.R Putnam's Sons) was the basis for Slaughterhouse-Five. Both works are timely warnings about our wa...
