“Derby described the incredible artificial weather that Earthlings sometimes create for other Earthlings when they don't want those other Earthlings to inhabit Earth any more.”

—  Kurt Vonnegut , book Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

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American writer 1922–2007

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