White Papers on Policy: you can hear blue jays hexalogically squawking in the background

Kurt Vonnegut's corpus literati, particularly Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), influenced me at some unconscious level of my psyche. I do not know how widely read his books are anymore. They were hugely popular among my contemporaries who, like me, came of age in the Sixties, a most peculiar time. I don't think that the young people of today have any idea what it was like to emerge in the Sixties with collegiate hallways plastered with numerous posters of assorted "ad hoc committees" for this an...