The Economist (US), April 21st, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut junior, novelist, died on April 11th, aged 84
ON FEBRUARY 13th 1945, Kurt Vonnegut sat in an underground meat locker in Dresden, Germany, listening to the city above him being destroyed. He and the other prisoners of war, captured as they wandered behind enemy lines, had been consigned to make vitamin syrup for pregnant mothers, trying to ignore the ominous "Schlachthof-Funf" (Slaughterhouse-Five) daubed on the door.
Now they simply listened. One prisoner made a joke. "Nobody laughed," Mr Vonnegut wrote later, "but we were all glad he said it. At least we were still alive! He...
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