"Those people were infested with carnivorous little corkscrews which would be seen only with a microscope. The victims' vertebrae were welded together after the corkscrews got through with the meat between. The syphilitics seemed tremendously dignified-erect, eyes straight ahead. I saw one stand on a curb at the corner of Meridian and Washington streets one time, underneath an overhanging clock in which my father designed. The intersection was known locally as "The Crossroads of America". This syphilitic man was thinking hard there, at the Crossroads of America, about how to get his legs to step off the curb and carry him across Washington Street. He shuddered gently, as though he had a small motor which was idling inside. Here was his problem: his brains, where the instructions to his legs originated, were being eaten clear through. Switches along the way were welded open or shut. This man looked like an old, old, man, although he might have been only thirty years old. He thought and thought. And then he kicked two times like a chorus girl. He certainly looked like a machine to me when I was a little boy. I tend to think of human beings as huge, rubbery test tubes, too, with chemical reactions seething inside." This is a little portion of what I am currently reading right now. Kurt Vonnegut talks about how he thinks everyone in the United States is a machine and how he saw people when he was little boy, like huge rubbery test tubes with a bunch of chemicals inside the tubes. This book talks about the problems in the United States and around the world especially of overpopulating in regions were there isnt even enough food to feed the population. The author explains the situation of overpopulating by describing a scene were someone is giving birth and only a mile away a man is dieing of starvation eating mud and gravel. This book has taught me how the world is slowly being worn out and overpopulated. So this book is really teaching me what is going on the world.
