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Favorite Vonnegut Passage
It's probably been 15 years since I read Vonnegut, but I had a phase in high school/college where I devoured all of his books. I loved his simple prose and how he explained human conventions like an anthropologist from another planet would. That influenced a lot of my thinking. He was also wonderfully irreverent. My favorite book was Breakfast of Champions, with the drawings (the original "asshole" pic) and the familiar, narcissistic idea (that we all secretly have sometimes) that you are the only real person on Earth. He had great whimsical ideas.
As a high school boy, my favorite Vonnegut passage was the entire chapter in Breakfast of Champions where he simply lists the penis sizes of all the male characters in the book.