This is jockel podcast number 371 with echo Charles and me jockel willing good evening echo good evening

We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful of what we pretend to be as a little quote from curvana get

One of my favorite authors. Yeah, look

That's kind of a weird thing to say because I don't have like this big list of favorite authors

It's sir, but he's one of the authors that I actually do really like a lot

Curve on a good born and raised in any anapolis went to Cornell University got kicked out of ROTC because he had bad grades

And he was a little over the top with his satire in the school newspaper

So that kind of tells you what kind of a duty was

But then he he didn't want to get drafted so he withdrew from college to go get in lists in the army

1943 got captured during the Battle of the Bulge

Prisoner of war and treason of course. This is this. I'm just giving you basic background if you don't know this stuff

While he was a prisoner of war in Dresden Dresden got fire bombed by the Allied forces

25,000 civilians were killed and the place was just a wasteland and he had survived you

There were being held as prisoners of war in

this slaughterhouse and he went into like the meat locker of the slaughterhouse

Which is where the book slaughterhouse five comes from

Anyways, he survives the war becomes a reporter

wrote a bunch of really good books very funny dark humor

Cats cradle book welcome to the monkey house slaughterhouse five which I talked about

But this quote that he gave which is we are what we pretend to be so we must be careful of what we pretend to be

It reminds me of this idea that we've been talking about for the last two podcasts and if you haven't listened to podcast

369 and 370 then just stop and go listen to those first and then catch up here

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