or The Children's Crusade
A Duty-dance with Death
by Kurt Vonnegut, JR. (written in 1969, 1st published in 1970)
137,000 people has been killed in the deadly Dresden bomb.
上網查得到的資料是約 24,000 至 40,000 死於 Dresden bomb
作者特有的一貫的風格，就是怪就對了。
其中跳躍在不同的時間點，很像最近流行的一部電影，《時間旅人之妻》。
主題是反戰。但是作者同時也嘲諷自己，反戰好比反冰河那樣的不可能。
主角的遭遇固是離奇，但皆荒謬。
作者對戰爭的看法——除了荒謬還是荒謬。
二戰中互相廝殺的士兵們都是孩子，極多是十八二十出頭的青年。
作者因此把書又名為《孩子十字軍》。
並提到歷史上歐洲的一次孩子十字軍，參與的孩子不是死就是被賣為奴！
我看了此書，才知道納綷殺了猶太人殺了，還把死者的油做成了肥皂和蠟燭！
節錄一段，以顯作者風格：
"A sign in there said that adults only were allowed in the back. There
were peep shows in the back that showed movies of young women and men
with no clothes on. It cost a quarter to look into a machine for one
minute. There were still photographs of naked young people for sale
back there, too. You could take those home. The stills were a lot more
Tralfamadorian than the movies, since you could look at them whenever
you wanted to, and they wouldn't change. Twenty years in the future,
those girls would still be young, would still be smiling or smoldering
or simply looking stupid, with their legs wide open.
Some of them were eating lollipops or bananas. They would still be
eating those. And the peckers of the young men would still be
semi-erect, and their muscles would be bulging like cannonballs. "
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