As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
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As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared the future. He would give this reply: 'Mr. Secretary-General, it is the past which scares the bejesus out of me.

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
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