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I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
— Kurt Vonnegut ‧ A Man Without A Country
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Vonnegut compares fiction that ignores technology to Victorian fiction that ignored sex: both leave out something central to how people actually live. His point is that realistic novels should include the gadgets shaping everyday life.
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