I'll take Kurt Vonnegut, from "Mother Night": I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be linked unto a syst

I'll take Kurt Vonnegut, from "Mother Night": I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be linked unto a system of gears where teeth have been filed off at random. Such snaggle-toothed thought machine, driven by a standard or even by a substandard libido, whirls with the jerky, noisy, gaudy pointlessness of a cuckoo clock in Hell.