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    2 B R 0 2 B | The Pink Classics
    2 B R 0 2 B | The Pink Classics
    2 B R 0 2 B | The Pink Classics
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    2 B R 0 2 B | The Pink Classics

    By Kurt Vonnegut and Sheba Blake

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    2 B R 0 2 B is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the digest magazine Worlds of If Science Fiction, January 1962, and collected in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999). The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B", referencing the famous phrase "to be, or not to be" from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. In this story, the title refers to the telephone number one dials to schedule an assisted suicide with the Federal Bureau of Termination. Vonnegut's 1965 novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater describes a story by this name, attributing it to his recurring character Kilgore Trout, although the plot summary given is closer in nature to the eponymous tale from his short-story collection Welcome to the Monkey House. The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans, and population control is used to limit the population of the United States to forty million. This is maintained through a combination of infanticide and government-assisted suicide - in short, in order for someone to be born, someone must first volunteer to die. As a result, births are few and far between, and deaths occur primarily by accident.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSheba Blake Publishing
    Release dateSep 7, 2017
    ISBN9783962552121
    2 B R 0 2 B | The Pink Classics
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    Kurt Vonnegut

    Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Siren's of Titan in 1959 and established him as ""a true artist"" with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene has declared, ""one of the best living American writers.""

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      2 B R 0 2 B | The Pink Classics - Kurt Vonnegut

      2BR02B

      BY

      KURT VONNEGUT

      Copyright © 2017 by Kurt Vonnegut.

      All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations em- bodied in critical articles or reviews.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organiza- tions, places, events and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      For information contact :

      Sheba Blake Publishing

      support@shebablake.com

      http://www.shebablake.com

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      Book and Cover design by Sheba Blake Publishing

      First Edition: January

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