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Welcome to the Monkey House
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The world is overpopulated, and they have Ethical Suicide Parlors, where public minded citizens are encouraged to go in and get a lethal injection from the attractive hostesses. There's a big thermometer outside, showing how many people there currently are in the world.
So the guy comes in, and he's chatting with the hostess. He wants to know how much the mercury will go down if he decides to do it. A foot?
No, she says.
An inch?
Not quite, she says.
Suddenly, he changes his tone. Every inch, he says, represents seventeen million people.
That's not the right way to look at it, she says. But she doesn't say what is the right way to look at it.
Ever since reading this story as a teenager, I've been unable to take anyone seriously who uses the expression "That's not the right way to look at it". Not my fault. Blame the late Mr. Vonnegut.
So the guy comes in, and he's chatting with the hostess. He wants to know how much the mercury will go down if he decides to do it. A foot?
No, she says.
An inch?
Not quite, she says.
Suddenly, he changes his tone. Every inch, he says, represents seventeen million people.
That's not the right way to look at it, she says. But she doesn't say what is the right way to look at it.
Ever since reading this story as a teenager, I've been unable to take anyone seriously who uses the expression "That's not the right way to look at it". Not my fault. Blame the late Mr. Vonnegut.
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Started Reading
January 1, 1973
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Finished Reading
December 20, 2008
– Shelved
January 2, 2009
– Shelved as:
too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts
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Jan 27, 2017 03:42PM
It's a great story, isn't it?
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