“This silly playlet seemed to satisfy them completely as a picture of what they were doing, why they were doing it, and who was against them, and why some people were against them. It was a beautifully simple picture these procession leaders had. It was as though a navigator, in order to free his mind of worries, had erased all the reefs from his maps.”

—  Kurt Vonnegut, book Player Piano

Source: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 21 (p. 212)

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